Alabama Studies
Identify the location of Alabama’s major geographic regions and describe the characteristics that distinguish them from each other.
Generate resourceDevelop an argument regarding the impact of the Creek Wars and Native American removal on the settlement of Alabama.
Generate resourceOutline Alabama’s participation in events leading to the Civil War and in the war itself, and explain how the war created change within the state.
Generate resourceDescribe how secession fostered division and led to conflict in the northern half of the state.
Generate resourceExplain the significance of Montgomery as the first capital of the Confederate States of America, and summarize reasons for moving the capital to Richmond.
Generate resourceAssess the impacts of the Civil War on Alabama’s economy and infrastructure, and identify battles and campaigns that affected these.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast how the Civil War affected the lives of different groups of Alabamians, including enslaved people and women.
Generate resourceExplain the role of Alabamians in helping achieve victory in the Spanish American War, World War I, and World War II.
Generate resourceSummarize the legacy of Alabama-based military units, their performance, and their contributions to battle, including the 167th Infantry Regiment and the Tuskegee Airmen.
Generate resourceDescribe the mobilization of Alabama industries and people on the home front during World War I and World War II.
Generate resourceEvaluate the ways in which Alabamians and Alabama military installations supported American interests during military conflicts of the Cold War and present day.
Generate resourceExplain how emancipation and Reconstruction produced both an expansion of rights and freedoms and a backlash against this expansion.
Generate resourceTrace the history of Black institutions in Alabama from their establishment during Reconstruction to the present.
Generate resourceEvaluate the role of new labor systems, Black Codes, and violence in stemming civil rights progress following Reconstruction in Alabama.
Generate resourceEvaluate the extent to which civil rights reformers in Alabama at the turn of the twentieth century successfully challenged the emergence of the Jim Crow South.
Generate resourceDescribe the role of women reformers in promoting reform, including Margaret Murray Washington and Julia Tutwiler.
Generate resourceExplain the role of individuals and communities in helping to expand educational and entrepreneurial opportunities for Black Alabamians at the turn of the twentieth century.
Generate resourceExplain how major Alabama civil rights campaigns brought about federal action and the resulting expansion of civil and human rights.
Generate resourceDescribe how civil rights campaigns in Alabama were led by a coalition of local, grassroots organizations and national civil rights leaders and organizations.
Generate resourceIdentify ways in which opponents of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama sought to limit its success.
Generate resourceIdentify civil rights leaders and foot soldiers in Alabama, and explain their contributions to fostering change in the state.
Generate resourceExplain the contributions of civil rights tourism to Alabama’s modern-day economy.
Generate resourceSummarize the creation and composition of the Alabama Constitution of 1901 and formulate an argument for constitutional reform in Alabama.
Generate resourceDescribe the relationship between Alabama’s state government and local governments, considering the concept of home rule and Dillon’s Rule.
Generate resourceSummarize how the geography and biodiversity of Alabama formed and evolved during the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic Periods.
Generate resourceExplain how Alabama’s geography contributes to the biodiversity of the state.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the roles of statewide elected officials, including the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and attorney general.
Generate resourceDescribe the state court system in Alabama, and explain how the election of judges in Alabama differs from the appointment of judges at the federal level.
Generate resourceDifferentiate among the types of state bureaucratic bodies in Alabama, including commissions, boards, and agencies.
Generate resourceResearch and report on significant political figures in Alabama history who have shaped the state and nation through their actions and initiatives.
Generate resourceExplain the interrelationship among geography, natural resources, and the development of Alabama’s economy from the early nineteenth century into the early twentieth century.
Generate resourceDescribe ways in which Alabama’s geography contributes to the state’s present-day tourism industry.
Generate resourceEvaluate the extent to which agriculture and natural resources remain a significant component of Alabama’s modern economy.
Generate resourceAnalyze the influence of federal spending on the growth of Alabama’s economy from the New Deal to the present.
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of World War I and World War II on industrialization and urbanization in Alabama.
Generate resourceDevelop an argument supporting or denying the premise that globalization has benefited Alabama’s economy since the 1990s, considering industries gained and lost.
Generate resourceExplain the role of Alabama in the global economy based on its major imports and exports.
Generate resourceDescribe the demographic characteristics of Alabama’s population, and explain how both historic and current migration patterns have shaped these characteristics.
Generate resourceExplain how Alabama’s location creates potential weather threats to the state and identify ways in which Alabamians prepare for and respond to natural disasters.
Generate resourceDescribe the cultures, economies, and governments of the first Indigenous peoples to inhabit Alabama.
Generate resourceIdentify the locations of the major Native American tribes of Alabama during the colonial period into the nineteenth century.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the major Native American tribes in Alabama of the colonial period and nineteenth century.
Generate resourceOutline the chronology of Alabama’s colonial history, identifying the shifting claims by imperial powers and Indigenous peoples engaged in colonial-era conflict.
Generate resourceExplain the impact of “Alabama Fever” on the settlement of Alabama and the growth of agriculture and slavery in the territory.
Generate resourceOutline the chronology of Alabama’s path to statehood in the early nineteenth century, including the shifting of capital locations.
Generate resourceContemporary World Issues
Explain how cultural, geographic, political, and social points of view can influence media descriptions of current international events.
Generate resourceExplain how scientific and technological changes impact the worldwide economy and the process of globalization.
Generate resourceEvaluate the positive and negative impacts of scientific and technological changes on society and on the environment.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe strategies that facilitate public discussion on current events.
Generate resourceResearch a current world issue or conflict and present information regarding its effects on the quality of life for individuals, groups, or countries.
Generate resourceDescribe means of implementing a possible solution to a global issue, analyzing its benefits and costs.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast how several sources cover the same events and explain how their varied perspectives influence audience perceptions about the events themselves.
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of current news stories and the issues they present on the individual and on local, national, and international communities.
Generate resourceRelate current news stories to past events and broader historical trends.
Generate resourceLocate on a map the areas affected by events reported in national and international news stories.
Generate resourceCompare the presentation of world events in various media, including cable news services, international news sources, Internet news sources, network television, print, public broadcasting, and social media.
Generate resourceExplain how to determine the reliability of news stories and their sources.
Generate resourceDescribe the use and misuse of different media platforms, including the use of social media and artificial intelligence (AI).
Generate resourceCritique viewpoints presented in cable news commentary, editorials, political cartoons, and social media algorithms.
Generate resourceExplain how public opinion polling is implemented, and describe how polling methods can produce intentional and unintentional bias and flawed samplings.
Generate resourceInterpret statistics included in current news stores related to political, social, and economic issues.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the functions and powers of United States government entities which shape official responses to international issues and events.
Generate resourceExplain how foreign policy is created, how it can be influenced, and how it can be limited.
Generate resourceDescribe the various roles and functions of the modern American military.
Generate resourceDescribe the roles of international governmental organizations (IGOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in addressing international issues and crises.
Generate resourceExplain the structure and roles of the United Nations and its specialized agencies and programs.
Generate resourceExplain the benefits and limitations of non-government entities resolving international events and crises.
Generate resourceEvaluate the extent to which nations have successfully collaborated to achieve broad international goals, citing specific instances.
Generate resourceDescribe the functions of modern-day alliance systems, regional organizations, and multinational corporations and cartels.
Generate resourceOutline the causes and progressions of current conflicts around the world, including interstate, intrastate, and extrastate conflicts.
Generate resourceInvestigate and explain how individuals and non-governmental groups may cause or perpetuate conflict, citing specific cases.
Generate resourceIdentify and analyze recent incidents of human rights abuse across the world, utilizing a variety of sources.
Generate resourceCompare the individual rights, opportunities, and privileges of United States citizens to those of citizens of other countries.
Generate resourceDescribe key rights and beliefs related to human rights as embedded in the Declaration of Independence, Geneva Conventions, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Generate resourceCritique how countries and international organizations respond to human rights violations, giving examples from recent history.
Generate resourceEvaluate the impact of economic globalization on worldwide trends and on individual nations and regions.
Generate resourceIdentify recurring historical patterns in economic development around the world.
Generate resourceDescribe the costs and benefits of trade among nations in an interdependent world.
Generate resourceCompare ways in which different countries address individual needs, national economic problems, and social issues.
Generate resourceGrade 10
Human Geography
Generate resourceContemporary World Issues and Civic Engagement
Generate resourceSociology
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Generate resourceUnited States History I: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution
Generate resourceCompare effects of economic, geographic, social, and political conditions before and after European explorations of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries on Europeans, American colonists, Africans, and indigenous Americans.
Generate resourceDescribing the influence of the Crusades, Renaissance, and Reformation on European exploration
Generate resourceComparing European motives for establishing colonies, including mercantilism, religious persecution, poverty, oppression, and new opportunities
Generate resourceAnalyzing the course of the Columbian Exchange for its impact on the global economy
Generate resourceAnalyze key ideas of Jacksonian Democracy for their impact on political participation, political parties, and constitutional government.
Generate resourceExplaining the spoils system, nullification, extension of voting rights, the Indian Removal Act, and the common man ideal
Generate resourceEvaluate the impact of American social and political reform on the emergence of a distinct culture.
Generate resourceExplaining the impact of the Second Great Awakening on the emergence of a national identity
Generate resourceExplaining the influence of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Dorothea Lynde Dix, and Susan B. Anthony on the development of social reform movements prior to the Civil War
Generate resourceDescribe the founding of the first abolitionist societies by Benjamin Rush and Benjamin Franklin and the role played by later critics of slavery, including William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Henry David Thoreau, and Charles Sumner.
Generate resourceDescribing the rise of religious movements in opposition to slavery, including objections of the Quakers
Generate resourceExplaining the importance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 that banned slavery in new states north of the Ohio River
Generate resourceDescribing the rise of the Underground Railroad and its leaders, including Harriet Tubman and the impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, on the abolitionist movement
Generate resourceSummarize major legislation and court decisions from 1800 to 1861 that led to increasing sectionalism, including the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Acts, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott decision.
Generate resourceDescribing Alabama's role in the developing sectionalism of the United States from 1819 to 1861, including participation in slavery, secession, the Indian War, and reliance on cotton
Generate resourceAnalyzing the Westward Expansion from 1803 to 1861 to determine its effect on sectionalism, including the Louisiana Purchase, Texas Annexation, and the Mexican Cession
Generate resourceDescribing tariff debates and the nullification crisis between 1800 and 1861
Generate resourceAnalyzing the formation of the Republican Party for its impact on the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States
Generate resourceDescribe how the Civil War influenced the United States, including the Anaconda Plan and the major battles of Bull Run, Antietam, Vicksburg, and Gettysburg and Sherman's March to the Sea.
Generate resourceIdentifying key Northern and Southern Civil War personalities, including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, and William Tecumseh Sherman
Generate resourceAnalyzing the impact of the division of the nation during the Civil War regarding resources, population distribution, and transportation
Generate resourceDescribing nonmilitary events and life during the Civil War, including the Homestead Act, the Morrill Act, Northern draft riots, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Gettysburg Address
Generate resourceDescribing the role of women in American society during the Civil War, including efforts made by Elizabeth Blackwell and Clara Barton
Generate resourceCompare congressional and presidential reconstruction plans, including African-American political participation.
Generate resourceTracing economic changes in the post-Civil War period for whites and African Americans in the North and South, including the effectiveness of the Freedmen's Bureau
Generate resourceDescribing social restructuring of the South, including Southern military districts, the role of carpetbaggers and scalawags, the creation of the black codes, and the Ku Klux Klan
Generate resourceSummarizing post-Civil War constitutional amendments, including the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
Generate resourceExplaining the impact of the Jim Crow laws and Plessey versus Ferguson on the social and political structure of the New South after Reconstruction
Generate resourceAnalyzing political and social motives that shaped the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 to determine their long-term effect on politics and economics in Alabama
Generate resourceExplain the transition of the United States from an agrarian society to an industrial nation prior to World War I.
Generate resourceDescribing the impact of Manifest Destiny on the economic and technological development of the post-Civil War West, including mining, the cattle industry, and the transcontinental railroad
Generate resourceIdentifying the changing role of the American farmer, including the establishment of the Granger movement and the Populist Party and agrarian rebellion over currency issues
Generate resourceEvaluating the Dawes Act for its effect on tribal identity, land ownership, and assimilation of American Indians between Reconstruction and World War I
Generate resourceComparing population percentages, motives, and settlement patterns of immigrants from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America, including the Chinese Exclusion Act regarding immigration quotas
Generate resourceCompare regional differences among early New England, Middle, and Southern colonies regarding economics, geography, culture, government, and American Indian relations.
Generate resourceExplaining the role of essential documents in the establishment of colonial governments, including the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the Mayflower Compact
Generate resourceExplaining the significance of the House of Burgesses and New England town meetings in colonial politics
Generate resourceTrace the chronology of events leading to the American Revolution, including the French and Indian War, passage of the Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party, the Boston Massacre, passage of the Intolerable Acts, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the publication of Common Sense, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Generate resourceExplaining the role of key revolutionary leaders, including George Washington; John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; Patrick Henry; Samuel Adams; Paul Revere; Crispus Attucks; and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Generate resourceExplaining the significance of revolutionary battles, including Bunker Hill, Trenton, Saratoga, and Yorktown
Generate resourceSummarizing major ideas of the Declaration of Independence, including the theories of John Locke, Charles de Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Generate resourceComparing perspectives of differing groups in society and their roles in the American Revolution, including men, women, white settlers, free and enslaved African Americans, and American Indians
Generate resourceDescribing how provisions of the Treaty of Paris of 1783 affected relations of the United States with European nations and American Indians
Generate resourceDescribe the political system of the United States based on the Constitution of the United States.
Generate resourceInterpreting the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States; separation of powers; federal system; elastic clause; the Bill of Rights; and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Nineteenth Amendments as key elements of the Constitution of the United States
Generate resourceDistinguishing personalities, issues, ideologies, and compromises related to the Constitutional Convention and the ratification of the Constitution of the United States, including the role of the Federalist papers
Generate resourceIdentifying factors leading to the development and establishment of political parties, including Alexander Hamilton's economic policies, conflicting views of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, George Washington's Farewell Address, and the election of 1800
Generate resourceExplain key cases that helped shape the United States Supreme Court, including Marbury versus Madison, McCullough versus Maryland, and Cherokee Nation versus Georgia.
Generate resourceExplaining concepts of loose and strict interpretations of the Constitution of the United States
Generate resourceDescribe relations of the United States with Britain and France from 1781 to 1823, including the XYZ Affair, the War of 1812, and the Monroe Doctrine.
Generate resourceDescribe causes, courses, and consequences of United States' expansionism prior to the Civil War, including the Treaty of Paris of 1783, the Northwest Ordinance of 1785, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the Louisiana Purchase, the Indian Removal Act, the Trail of Tears, Manifest Destiny, the Mexican War and Cession, Texas Independence, the acquisition of Oregon, the California Gold Rush, and the Western Trails.
Generate resourceCompare major events in Alabama from 1781 to 1823, including statehood as part of the expanding nation, acquisition of land, settlement, and the Creek War, to those of the developing nation.
Generate resourceExplain dynamics of economic nationalism during the Era of Good Feelings, including transportation systems, Henry Clay's American System, slavery and the emergence of the plantation system, and the beginning of industrialism in the Northeast.
Generate resourceDescribe current news stories from various perspectives, including geographical, historical, political, social, and cultural.
Generate resourceEvaluating the impact of current news stories on the individual and on local, state, national, and international communities
Generate resourceInterpreting statistical data related to political, social, and economic issues in current events
Generate resourceCompare the relationship of governments and economies to events occurring in specific nations.
Generate resourceDescribing costs and benefits of trade among nations in an interdependent world
Generate resourceComparing ways different countries address individual and national economic and social problems, including child care, tax rates, economic regulations, health care, national debt, and unemployment
Generate resourceCompare civic responsibilities, individual rights, opportunities, and privileges of citizens of the United States to those of citizens of other nations.
Generate resourceAnalyze scientific and technological changes for their impact on the United States and the world.
Generate resourceAnalyze cultural elements, including language, art, music, literature, and belief systems, to determine how they facilitate global understanding or misunderstanding.
Generate resourceCompare information presented through various media, including television, newspapers, magazines, journals, and the Internet.
Generate resourceDescribing the use, misuse, and meaning of different media materials, including photographs, artwork, and film clips
Generate resourceCritiquing viewpoints presented in editorial writing and political cartoons, including the use of symbols that represent viewpoints
Generate resourceDescribing the role of intentional and unintentional bias and flawed samplings
Generate resourceIdentify strategies that facilitate public discussion on societal issues, including debating various positions, using a deliberative process, blogging, and presenting public forums.
Generate resourceOrganize a service-learning project, including research and implementation, that addresses an identified community or global issue having an impact on the quality of life of individuals and groups.
Generate resourceDescribe spatial patterns of world populations to discern major clusters of population density and reasons for these patterns.
Generate resourceRecognize how human-environmental interaction affects culture in today's society.
Generate resourceDescribing ways the diffusion of ideas affects gender roles within societies
Generate resourceComparing dietary trends in Africa, Asia, the United States, Europe, and South America
Generate resourceTracing disease prevalence and efficiency of treatment around the world, including malaria, dengue fever, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), parasites, and obesity
Generate resourceCategorizing musical instruments as a means to understanding culture, including the didgeridoo in the aboriginal culture in Australia
Generate resourceExplaining how culture from various countries is expressed through adornments
Generate resourceExplaining how regions become major business centers of tourism and trade, including the cities of Dubai, Bangkok, New York, and Shanghai
Generate resourceIdentifying how trends, including ecotourism and the cruise industry, affect island culture in tropical areas
Generate resourceExplaining how Southeast Asian ethnic minorities, including Hmong, Lhasa, and Akha, adapt to life in the United States
Generate resourceTracing the migration of ethnic minorities in Kunming to urban cities in China
Generate resourceExplaining how the displacement of American Indians to reservations affected many areas of the United States, including Alabama
Generate resourceIdentify the characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.
Generate resourceExplaining essential aspects of culture, including social structure, languages, belief systems, customs, religion, traditions, art, food, architecture, and technology
Generate resourceDistinguishing various types of architecture, including rural, urban, and religious structures
Generate resourceInterpreting different ceremonies based on religious traditions, including marriages, funerals, and coming-of-age
Generate resourceAnalyze the interaction of urban places for their impact on surrounding regions.
Generate resourceExplain how economic interdependence and globalization impact many countries and their populations.
Generate resourceTrace the development of psychology as a scientific discipline evolving from other fields of study.
Generate resourceDescribing early psychological and biological inquiries that led to contemporary approaches and methods of experimentation, including ideologies of Aristotle, John Locke, Wilhelm Wundt, Charles Darwin, William James, Frantz Fanon, and G. Stanley Hall
Generate resourceDifferentiating among various modern schools of thought and perspectives in psychology that have evolved since 1879, including each school's view on concepts of aggression or appetite
Generate resourceIllustrating how modern psychologists utilize multiple perspectives to understand behavior and mental processes
Generate resourceIdentifying major subfields and career opportunities related to psychology
Generate resourceDescribing how understanding syntax and grammar affect language comprehension
Generate resourceDemonstrating how qualities of sign language are similar to spoken language
Generate resourceExplaining how hearing loss in infants and children can affect the development of spoken language
Generate resourceCompare various states of consciousness evident in human behavior, including the process of sleeping and dreaming.
Generate resourceExplaining states of sleep throughout an average night's sleep, including nonrapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM)
Generate resourceAnalyzing the use of psychoactive drugs for effects on people, including the mechanisms of addiction, withdrawal, and tolerance
Generate resourceIdentifying theories that explain motivational processes, including cognitive, biological, and psychological reasons for motivational behavior, and Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs and arousal theory
Generate resourceDescribing situational cues that cause emotions, including anger, curiosity, and anxiety
Generate resourceDescribe methods of assessing individual differences and theories of intelligence, including Charles E. Spearman's general (g) factor of intelligence, Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences, and Robert J. Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence.
Generate resourceDescribing different types of intelligence tests, including the Flynn effect
Generate resourceDescribing how intelligence may be influenced by differences in heredity and environment and by biases toward ethnic minority and socioeconomic groups
Generate resourceDifferentiating among personality theories, including psychoanalytic, sociocognitive, trait, and humanistic theories of personality
Generate resourceDescribing different measures of personality, including the Neuroticism-Extroversion-Openness Personality Inventory (NEO-PI), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and projective tests
Generate resourceDescribing different approaches for explaining mental illness, including biological and medical, cognitive, and sociocultural models
Generate resourceDifferentiating types of mental illness, including mood, anxiety, somatoform, schizophrenic, dissociative, and personality disorders
Generate resourceDescribe how attitudes, conditions of obedience and conformity, and other influences affect actions and shape human behavior, including actor-observer, self-server, social facilitation, social loafing, bystander effect, groupthink, and group polarization.
Generate resourceCritiquing Stanley Milgram's work with obedience and S. E. Asch's work with conformity
Generate resourceDescribe various careers pursued by psychologists, including medical and mental health care fields, the business world, education, law and criminal justice, and research.
Generate resourceDescribe research strategies used by psychologists to explore mental processes and behavior.
Generate resourceDescribing the type of methodology and strategies used by researchers in different psychological studies
Generate resourceContrasting independent, dependent, and confounding variables and control and experimental groups
Generate resourceIdentifying systematic procedures necessary for conducting an experiment and improving the validity of results
Generate resourceDescribing the use of statistics in evaluating research, including calculating the mean, median, and mode from a set of data; conducting a simple correlational analysis using either calculators or computer software; and explaining the meaning of statistical significance
Generate resourceExplain how processes of the central and peripheral nervous systems underlie behavior and mental processes, including how neurons are the basis for neural communication.
Generate resourceDescribing how neurons communicate, including the role of neurotransmitters in behavior and the electrochemical process
Generate resourceComparing the effect of drugs and toxins on the brain and neurotransmitters
Generate resourceDescribing how different sections of the brain have specialized yet interdependent functions, including functions of different lobes and hemispheres of the cerebral cortex and consequences of damage to specific sections of the brain
Generate resourceDescribing different technologies used to study the brain and nervous system
Generate resourceAnalyzing behavior genetics for its contribution to the understanding of behavior and mental processes, including differentiating between deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), chromosomes, and genes; identifying effects of chromosomal abnormalities; and explaining how genetics and environmental factors work together to determine inherited traits
Generate resourceExplaining the role of sensory systems in human behavior, including sight, sound, smell, touch, and pain
Generate resourceExplaining how what is perceived can be different from what is sensed, including how attention and environmental cues can affect the ability to accurately sense and perceive the world
Generate resourceDescribing physiological processes associated with stress, including hormones associated with stress responses
Generate resourceDescribing the flight-or-fight response in terms of the autonomic and somatic nervous systems
Generate resourceContrasting positive and negative ways of coping with stress related to problem-focused coping, aggression, and emotion-focused coping
Generate resourceExplaining approach-approach, approach-avoidance, and avoidance-avoidance conflicts
Generate resourceDescribe the physical, cognitive, and social development across the life span of a person from the prenatal through aging stages.
Generate resourceOutlining the stage-of-development theories of Jean Piaget, Erik H. Erikson, Sigmund Freud, Carol Gilligan, and Lawrence Kohlberg
Generate resourceDescribe the processes and importance of memory, including how information is encoded and stored, mnemonic devices, schemas related to short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory.
Generate resourceComparing ways memories are stored in the brain, including episodic and procedural
Generate resourceDescribe ways in which organisms learn, including the processes of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational conditioning.
Generate resourceIdentifying unconditioned stimuli (UCS), conditioned stimuli (CS), unconditioned responses (UCR), and conditioned responses (CR)
Generate resourceDescribing original experiments conducted by B. F. Skinner, Albert Bandura, Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and Rosalie Rayner
Generate resourceDifferentiating between reinforcement and punishment, positive and negative reinforcement, and various schedules of reinforcement
Generate resourceDescribe how organisms think and solve problems, including processes involved in accurate thinking.
Generate resourceIdentifying the role of mental images and verbal symbols in the thought process
Generate resourceAnalyzing different types of heuristics to determine effects on problem solving
Generate resourceIdentifying important figures in the field of sociology, including Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, George Herbert Mead, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Generate resourceIdentifying characteristics of sociology, including functional integration, power, social action, social structure, and culture
Generate resourceComparing various forms of collective behavior, including mobs, riots, fads, and crowds
Generate resourceExplaining the impact of the modern Civil Rights Movement, the women's movement, the gun rights movement, the green movement, and other minority movements in the United States
Generate resourceContrast population patterns using the birth rate, death rate, migration rate, and dependency rate.
Generate resourceAnalyzing factors that affect the depletion of natural resources for their impact on social and economic development
Generate resourceExplain methods and tools of research used by sociologists to study human society, including surveys, polls, statistics, demographic information, case studies, participant observations, and program evaluations.
Generate resourceComparing ways in which cultures differ, change, and resist change, including countercultures, subcultures, and ethnocentric beliefs
Generate resourceIllustrating key concepts of socialization, including self-concept, looking-glass self, significant others, and role-taking
Generate resourceDetermining the role of family, school, peer groups, and the media in socializing young people
Generate resourceIdentify antisocial behaviors, including social deviance, addiction, terrorism, anomie, and related arguments for the strain theory and the conflict theory.
Generate resourceContrasting violent crime, property crime, and victimless crime with white-collar crime
Generate resourceComparing methods for dealing with antisocial behavior, including imprisonment, restitution, community service, rehabilitation, education, and therapy
Generate resourceDescribe how environment and genetics affect personality, including self-concept and temperament.
Generate resourceIdentify stages of development across the life cycle, including birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, middle age, and late adulthood.
Generate resourceExplaining the relationship between social stratification and social class, including status ascription versus achievement, intergenerational social mobility, and structural occupational change
Generate resourceRelating the importance of group dynamics, including size, leadership, decision making, and gender roles
Generate resourceDistinguishing between the terms, race and ethnicity and prejudice and discrimination
Generate resourceDescribe the structure and function of the family unit, including traditional, extended, nuclear, single-parent, and blended families involving the roles of parent, child, and spouse.
Generate resourceIdentifying problems facing families, including abuse, divorce, teen pregnancy, poverty, addiction, family violence, and care of elderly family members
Generate resourceExplain the purpose of social systems and institutions, including schools, churches, voluntary associations, and governments.
Generate resourceGrade 10
UNITED STATES HISTORY 1: BEGINNINGS TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Generate resourceRecognize the influence of the Crusades, Renaissance, and reformation on European exploration. Identify European motives for establishing colonies including mercantilism, religious persecution, poverty, oppression, and new opportunities. Identify the Columbian Exchange including the triangular trade and the development of slavery in the colonies.
Generate resourceRecognize the positive and negative ideas of Jacksonian Democracy and identify examples, including the expansion of voting rights.
Generate resourceRecognize reform movements and reform leaders of the pre-Civil War Era.
Generate resourceDefine abolition; understand the purpose of the abolitionist movement; identify important leaders and contributions of the abolitionist movement.
Generate resourceDefine sectionalism; recognize major legislation and court decisions that increased sectional tensions prior to the Civil War.
Generate resourceDefine civil war; describe the Civil War as a conflict between Southern and Northern states; identify major events, battles, and people that influenced the United States during the Civil War; locate the Union States from the Confederate States on a map; describe Alabama’s role in the Civil War.
Generate resourceDefine reconstruction, scalawags, carpetbaggers, Black Codes, impeachment, and freedmen’s Bureau; identify Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments; recognize social, political, and economic changes initiated by the policies of the Reconstruction.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast agricultural and industrial societies; recognize that the United States transitioned from an agricultural society to an industrial society prior to World War I.
Generate resourceIdentify and locate the regions of early New England, Middle colonies, and Southern colonies; recognize economic, cultural, and governmental characteristics for each region; understand that certain ideas found in the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the Mayflower Compact influenced the development of self-government.
Generate resourceRecognize the importance of major events leading up to the American Revolution including the French and Indian War, passage of the Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party, the Boston Massacre, passage of the Intolerable Acts, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the publication of Common Sense, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Generate resourceDefine the major provisions of the Constitution including the separation of powers, checks and balances, the three branches of government – executive, legislative, and judicial.
Generate resourceIdentify the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
Generate resourceIdentify the key cases that helped shape the United States Supreme Court, including Marbury versus Madison, McCullough versus Maryland, and Cherokee Nation versus Georgia.
Generate resourceUnderstand that the United States interacts with other countries in the world; identify important events between the United States, Britain, and France from 1781 to 1823.
Generate resourceUnderstand the concept of Manifest Destiny; identify and describe events of the U.S. expansion prior to the Civil War.
Generate resourceIdentify major events in Alabama from 1781 to 1823, including settlement, statehood, and conflicts with American Indians.
Generate resourceDefine economic nationalism; identify internal improvements during the Era of Good Feelings including canals, national road, steamboat, and the cotton gin.
Generate resourceGrade 10: United States History I: Revolution to Progressive Era
Trace the events from 1754 to 1783 that led to the independence of the United States of America.
Generate resourceTrace the evolution and expansion of abolitionism, examining the contributions of key abolitionist figures and analyzing the reactions of both southern and northern communities to this campaign.
Generate resourceDescribe forms of resistance to slavery demonstrated by enslaved and free Black Americans, and assess the impact of resistance on southern states’ slave codes.
Generate resourceDescribe the rise of religious opposition to slavery during the Second Great Awakening, including the objections of Quakers, and how this fostered schisms within American churches.
Generate resourceIdentify leading abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, and summarize the arguments they made in opposition to slavery and in rebuttal to pro-slavery rhetoric.
Generate resourceEvaluate how the Underground Railroad and its leaders shaped the national discussion over slavery, including the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act and publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Generate resourceAnalyze how government policies and events related to slavery led to increased sectionalism throughout the United States prior to the Civil War.
Generate resourceSummarize major legislation and court decisions from 1820 to 1861 that sought to address the issue of slavery, and describe the sectional responses to these government actions.
Generate resourceDevelop an argument to show how the causes and consequences of the Texas Revolution and Mexican-American War escalated sectional tension in the debate over slavery and expansion.
Generate resourceDescribe how Alabamians were impacted by growing sectionalism from 1832 to 1861, including the reliance on cotton and slave labor, the Second Creek War, and secession.
Generate resourceAnalyze the effect of sectionalism and debate over slavery on United States political parties in the 1850s and how this led to Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 election and the secession of southern states.
Generate resourceExplain the progression of the Civil War, analyzing the events and the decisions by key figures that led to United States victory and the abolition of slavery.
Generate resourceCompare the military strategy, leadership, and resources of the United States and the Confederate States of America, and evaluate how these factors shaped the outcomes of key battles.
Generate resourceSummarize the political, social, and economic role that Alabama played in the Civil War.
Generate resourceDescribe the social, economic, and political conditions that affected citizens during the Civil War and explain how both citizens and enslaved people contributed to the war effort.
Generate resourceSummarize the effects of technological and scientific advancements of the mid-1800s on the strategy, battlefield tactics, and consequences of the Civil War.
Generate resourceTrace the progression of emancipation during and after the Civil War, including the effects of self-emancipation, the Emancipation Proclamation, Juneteenth, and the Thirteenth Amendment.
Generate resourceEvaluate how Reconstruction affected the economic, political, and social landscape of the South.
Generate resourceCompare congressional and presidential Reconstruction plans, including the legislation and constitutional amendments each plan proposed and passed.
Generate resourceDescribe the roles of key groups in seeking to influence or resist economic, political, and social change throughout the Reconstruction era in the United States.
Generate resourceExplain how ownership of one’s own labor and land were equated with freedom by freedpeople, and describe emerging labor systems that sought to limit this freedom in the former Confederacy.
Generate resourceDescribe how Black Americans in the former Confederacy established new institutions and organizations to mobilize grassroots support for political participation and elect Black politicians to office.
Generate resourceDevelop an argument regarding how national and regional events and trends brought Reconstruction to an end.
Generate resourceExplain how westward expansion after the Civil War created economic growth in the West and affected the people living there as well as those migrating to the region.
Generate resourceEvaluate the contributions of the Homestead Act and the transcontinental railroad to increased migration to and settlement of the West.
Generate resourceDescribe the economic and environmental impacts of new industries during the settlement of the West, including the mining and cattle industries.
Generate resourceExplain the effects of federal policies and military actions on Native Americans after the Civil War and describe Native American resistance to these actions.
Generate resourceEvaluate the United States’ efforts to increase engagement with Asia and the Pacific Islands in the late nineteenth century.
Generate resourceDescribe the economic contributions of Asian immigrants in the second half of the nineteenth century and the hostility they faced in the United States.
Generate resourceSummarize why the United States sought to acquire the Hawaiian Islands and describe native Hawaiians’ efforts to resist annexation.
Generate resourceDescribe the transformation of American society and politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Generate resourceAnalyze how the growing awareness of economic and political corruption during the Gilded Age led to reform efforts on both state and national levels.
Generate resourceDescribe the changes in American society that resulted from the inventions and innovations of business leaders, entrepreneurs, and inventors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Generate resourceAnalyze the push and pull factors contributing to the rapid growth of cities in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Generate resourceSummarize social, economic, and cultural consequences of urbanization for American society, including changes in living and working conditions, the emergence of new social classes, and the growth of leisure opportunities.
Generate resourceExplain how various reform and reactionary movements emerged in response to the challenges of urbanization and immigration.
Generate resourceInvestigate and recount the experiences of immigrant communities in urban America, including patterns of settlement, cultural assimilation, and origins of migration.
Generate resourceDescribe the emergence of the Populist and Progressive movements and explain changes brought about by individual reformers and organizations.
Generate resourceDevelop an argument supporting the significance of the National Farmers Alliance, Colored Farmers’ National Alliance, and the Grange in shaping the life of farmers and promoting economic reform.
Generate resourceAssess the effectiveness of muckrakers’ use of literature, newspapers, photography, and other media to inspire change during the Progressive Era.
Generate resourceSummarize the rise of labor unions and their efforts to improve working conditions in industrial America.
Generate resourceAnalyze the roles and differing viewpoints of female reformers and women’s organizations in guiding the women’s suffrage and temperance movements.
Generate resourceDescribe the emergence of the New South economy and Jim Crow era, and explain the corresponding efforts to secure civil rights by Black Americans after Reconstruction.
Generate resourceExplain how Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), and violence shaped the economic, political, and social structure of the New South after Reconstruction.
Generate resourceSummarize political and social motives that influenced the writing of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, and explain its effect on politics and economics in Alabama.
Generate resourceAnalyze the ideologies, efforts, and impacts of civil rights reformers, groups, and civic organizations that challenged Jim Crow laws and violence at the turn of the twentieth century.
Generate resourceDescribe the efforts of reformers to create greater educational and economic opportunities for Black Americans through the establishment of new institutions and organizations.
Generate resourceExplain how British policies and actions from 1754 to 1775 created political and economic disagreements with American colonists.
Generate resourceAnalyze the means by which colonists protested British policies and the ideas communicated through colonists’ speeches and written pamphlets.
Generate resourceSummarize the main arguments within the Declaration of Independence, its rationale for separation from Great Britain, and its ideas of equality, liberty, natural rights, and the rule of law.
Generate resourceEvaluate the contributions of colonial leaders, including George Washington; military strategy; and the support of foreign nations to significant victories in the War for Independence.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the contributions of different groups in colonial America to the War for Independence and the effects of the war on members of these groups, including free and enslaved Black Americans, Loyalists, Native Americans, and women.
Generate resourceEvaluate how events and issues from the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1783) to the ratification of the Constitution of the United States affected the development of the political system of the United States.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the domestic agendas and accomplishments of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.
Generate resourceCritique the effectiveness of national legislation passed during the Progressive Era in addressing concerns regarding business practices, including the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act.
Generate resourceIdentify the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, and describe how Shays’ Rebellion generated sentiment favoring a strong central government.
Generate resourceDescribe the major issues debated at the Constitutional Convention and analyze the solutions produced, including: the distribution of political power among states and within the federal government; the conduct of foreign affairs, commerce, and trade; the election of the executive; and slavery as a regional and federal issue.
Generate resourceCompare the arguments of Federalists and Anti-Federalists regarding ratification of the United States Constitution, and explain how the Bill of Rights represented a compromise between fundamental liberties and the powers of government.
Generate resourceAnalyze the major policies and political developments of the presidencies of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain factors leading to the development of political parties, including the conflicting views of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, George Washington’s Farewell Address, and the election of 1800.
Generate resourceAnalyze the development of economic infrastructure during the Early Republic, including the effects of Alexander Hamilton’s economic policies.
Generate resourceExplain the establishment of a national judiciary and its power, including the institution of judicial review in Marbury v. Madison (1803).
Generate resourceDescribe relations of the United States with Britain, France, and Native American nations from 1789 to 1812.
Generate resourceAnalyze the political and economic causes and consequences of the War of 1812, including the impact on Native Americans.
Generate resourceAssess how the American Revolution and its rhetoric affected the status of slavery in the newly formed United States.
Generate resourceDescribe the growth of an anti-slavery movement in northern states through the founding of the first abolitionist societies, passage of gradual emancipation laws, court cases, and actions of individuals.
Generate resourceExplain why the Northwest Ordinance's ban on slavery in new states north of the Ohio River (1787) was significant.
Generate resourceExplain causes, courses, and consequences of United States’ expansionism and the rise of Manifest Destiny ideology prior to 1848.
Generate resourceSummarize the effects of the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears on Native Americans, and describe the efforts by different nations to oppose removal.
Generate resourceDescribe how the Treaty of Paris of 1783, Northwest Ordinance of 1785, Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and the Louisiana Purchase affected American territorial expansion.
Generate resourceDescribe how scientific and technological advances helped facilitate expansion prior to 1848.
Generate resourceAnalyze reasons for migration via the western trails and the consequences of the rapid settlement of California, Oregon, Texas, and Utah on those migrating, those residing in these regions, and on the United States as a whole.
Generate resourceCompare major events in Alabama from 1781 to 1823, including statehood as part of the expanding nation, acquisition of land, settlement, and the Creek War, to events occurring elsewhere in the developing nation.
Generate resourceEvaluate the influence of American social and political reform on the emergence of a national identity from the early to mid-nineteenth century.
Generate resourceDescribe the changes in political culture during the Age of Reform, including the concept of Jacksonian democracy.
Generate resourceInvestigate and share information on the influence of individuals and movements of art, religion, education, and literature on the emergence of a national identity.
Generate resourceAssess how women challenged their societal roles under the Cult of Domesticity through their participation in social movements prior to the Civil War.
Generate resourceSummarize the contributions of women reformers in the early to mid-nineteenth century who sought to expand political and educational opportunities for women.
Generate resourceExplain how the acquisition of new land in the South and the invention of the cotton gin contributed to the growth of the cotton economy and increased demand for enslaved labor.
Generate resourceAnalyze the domestic slave trade/forced migration, labor, and variations in the practice of slavery in different areas of the United States.
Generate resourceDescribe how enslaved people maintained African traditions and created their own unique culture, including foodways, spiritual beliefs, and ceremonies.
Generate resourceExplain how economic and social divisions led to heightened sectionalism between the North and the South, examining their geographical and economic distinctions and the disparities between agrarian and industrial interests.
Generate resourceExplain how the Market Revolution fostered economic, cultural, and demographic changes in northern states.
Generate resourceDescribe the central ideas of Henry Clay’s American System, and explain how the implementation of these concepts contributed to the growth of the American economy and sectionalism.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast political and sectional views on economic policies, and explain how these views led to political conflict during the early to mid-nineteenth century.
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Generate resourceUnited States History II: The Industrial Revolution to the Present
Generate resourceExplain the transition of the United States from an agrarian society to an industrial nation prior to World War I.
Generate resourceInterpreting the impact of change from workshop to factory on workers' lives, including the New Industrial Age from 1870 to 1900, the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Pullman Strike, the Haymarket Square Riot, and the impact of John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Gompers, Eugene V. Debs, A. Philip Randolph, and Thomas Alva Edison
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of World War II on the lives of American citizens, including wartime economic measures, population shifts, growth in the middle class, growth of industrialization, advancements in science and technology, increased wealth in the African-American community, racial and ethnic tensions, Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (G. I. Bill of Rights), and desegregation of the military.
Generate resourceDescribing Alabama's participation in World War II, including the role of the Tuskegee Airmen, the Aliceville Prisoner of War (POW) camp, growth of the Port of Mobile, production of Birmingham steel, and the establishment of military bases
Generate resourceDescribe the international role of the United States from 1945 through 1960 relative to the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Blockade, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Generate resourceDescribing Cold War policies and issues, the domino theory, McCarthyism, and their consequences, including the institution of loyalty oaths under Harry S. Truman, the Alger Hiss case, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Generate resourceLocating areas of conflict during the Cold War from 1945 to 1960, including East and West Germany, Hungary, Poland, Cuba, Korea, and China
Generate resourceDescribe major initiatives of the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Administrations.
Generate resourceDescribing major foreign events and issues of the John F. Kennedy Administration, including construction of the Berlin Wall, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the Cuban missile crisis
Generate resourceTrace the course of the involvement of the United States in Vietnam from the 1950s to 1975, including the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the Tet Offensive, destabilization of Laos, secret bombings of Cambodia, and the fall of Saigon.
Generate resourceLocating on a map or globe the divisions of Vietnam, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and major battle sites
Generate resourceTrace events of the modern Civil Rights Movement from post-World War II to 1970 that resulted in social and economic changes, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, the March on Washington, Freedom Rides, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, and the Selma-to-Montgomery March.
Generate resourceTracing the federal government's involvement in the modern Civil Rights Movement, including the abolition of the poll tax, the nationalization of state militias, Brown versus Board of Education in 1954, the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Generate resourceExplaining contributions of individuals and groups to the modern Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr.; James Meredith; Medgar Evers; Thurgood Marshall; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); and the civil rights foot soldiers
Generate resourceAppraising contributions of persons and events in Alabama that influenced the modern Civil Rights Movement, including Rosa Parks, Autherine Lucy, John Patterson, George C. Wallace, Vivian Malone Jones, Fred Shuttlesworth, the Children's March, and key local persons and events
Generate resourceDescribing the development of a Black Power movement, including the change in focus of the SNCC, the rise of Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panther movement
Generate resourceDescribing the economic impact of African-American entrepreneurs on the modern Civil Rights Movement, including S. B. Fuller and A. G. Gaston
Generate resourceDescribe changing social and cultural conditions in the United States during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
Generate resourceDescribe significant foreign and domestic issues of presidential administrations from Richard M. Nixon to the present.
Generate resourceEvaluate social and political origins, accomplishments, and limitations of Progressivism.
Generate resourceExplaining the impact of the Populist Movement on the role of the federal government in American society
Generate resourceAssessing the impact of muckrakers on public opinion during the Progressive movement, including Upton Sinclair, Jacob A. Riis, and Ida M. Tarbell
Generate resourceExplaining national legislation affecting the Progressive movement, including the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act
Generate resourceDetermining the influence of the Niagara Movement, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Carter G. Woodson on the Progressive Era
Generate resourceAssessing the significance of the public education movement initiated by Horace Mann
Generate resourceComparing the presidential leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson in obtaining passage of measures regarding trust-busting, the Hepburn Act, the Pure Food and Drug Act, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve Act, and conservation
Generate resourceExplain the United States' changing role in the early twentieth century as a world power.
Generate resourceDescribing causes of the Spanish-American War, including yellow journalism, the sinking of the Battleship USS Maine, and economic interests in Cuba
Generate resourceIdentifying the role of the Rough Riders on the iconic status of President Theodore Roosevelt
Generate resourceDescribing consequences of the Spanish-American War, including the Treaty of Paris of 1898, insurgency in the Philippines, and territorial expansion in the Pacific and Caribbean
Generate resourceAnalyzing the involvement of the United States in the Hawaiian Islands for economic and imperialistic interests
Generate resourceAppraising Alabama's contributions to the United States between Reconstruction and World War I, including those of William Crawford Gorgas, Joseph Wheeler, and John Tyler Morgan
Generate resourceEvaluating the role of the Open Door policy and the Roosevelt Corollary on America's expanding economic and geographic interests
Generate resourceComparing the executive leadership represented by William Howard Taft's Dollar Diplomacy, Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy, and Woodrow Wilson's Moral Diplomacy
Generate resourceDescribe causes, events, and the impact of military involvement of the United States in World War I, including mobilization and economic and political changes.
Generate resourceIdentifying the role of militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism in World War I
Generate resourceExplaining controversies over the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, and the League of Nations
Generate resourceExplaining how the Treaty of Versailles led to worsening economic and political conditions in Europe, including greater opportunities for the rise of fascist states in Germany, Italy, and Spain
Generate resourceComparing short- and long-term effects of changing boundaries in pre- and post-World War I in Europe and the Middle East, leading to the creation of new countries
Generate resourceEvaluate the impact of social changes and the influence of key figures in the United States from World War I through the 1920s, including Prohibition, the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the Scopes Trial, limits on immigration, Ku Klux Klan activities, the Red Scare, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Jazz Age, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W. C. Handy, and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Generate resourceAnalyzing radio, cinema, and print media for their impact on the creation of mass culture
Generate resourceAnalyzing works of major American artists and writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, and H. L. Mencken, to characterize the era of the 1920s
Generate resourceDetermining the relationship between technological innovations and the creation of increased leisure time
Generate resourceDescribe social and economic conditions from the 1920s through the Great Depression regarding factors leading to a deepening crisis, including the collapse of the farming economy and the stock market crash of 1929.
Generate resourceAssessing effects of overproduction, stock market speculation, and restrictive monetary policies on the pending economic crisis
Generate resourceDescribing the impact of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act on the global economy and the resulting worldwide depression
Generate resourceIdentifying notable authors of the 1920s, including John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, and Zora Neale Hurston
Generate resourceExplain strengths and weaknesses of the New Deal in managing problems of the Great Depression through relief, recovery, and reform programs, including the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Social Security Act.
Generate resourceAnalyzing conditions created by the Dust Bowl for their impact on migration patterns during the Great Depression
Generate resourceSummarize events leading to World War II, including the militarization of the Rhineland, Germany's seizure of Austria and Czechoslovakia, Japan's invasion of China, and the Rape of Nanjing.
Generate resourceAnalyzing the impact of fascism, Nazism, and communism on growing conflicts in Europe
Generate resourceExplaining the isolationist debate as it evolved from the 1920s to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent change in United States' foreign policy
Generate resourceEvaluating the impact of the Munich Pact and the failed British policy of appeasement resulting in the invasion of Poland
Generate resourceDescribe the significance of major battles, events, and consequences of World War II campaigns, including North Africa, Midway, Normandy, Okinawa, the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, and the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences.
Generate resourceLocating on a map or globe the major battles of World War II and the extent of the Allied and Axis territorial expansion
Generate resourceDescribing military strategies of World War II, including blitzkrieg, island-hopping, and amphibious landings
Generate resourceExplaining events and consequences of war crimes committed during World War II, including the Holocaust, the Bataan Death March, the Nuremberg Trials, the post-war Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Genocide Convention
Generate resourceDescribe current news stories from various perspectives, including geographical, historical, political, social, and cultural.
Generate resourceEvaluating the impact of current news stories on the individual and on local, state, national, and international communities
Generate resourceInterpreting statistical data related to political, social, and economic issues in current events
Generate resourceCompare the relationship of governments and economies to events occurring in specific nations.
Generate resourceDescribing costs and benefits of trade among nations in an interdependent world
Generate resourceComparing ways different countries address individual and national economic and social problems, including child care, tax rates, economic regulations, health care, national debt, and unemployment
Generate resourceCompare civic responsibilities, individual rights, opportunities, and privileges of citizens of the United States to those of citizens of other nations.
Generate resourceAnalyze scientific and technological changes for their impact on the United States and the world.
Generate resourceAnalyze cultural elements, including language, art, music, literature, and belief systems, to determine how they facilitate global understanding or misunderstanding.
Generate resourceCompare information presented through various media, including television, newspapers, magazines, journals, and the Internet.
Generate resourceDescribing the use, misuse, and meaning of different media materials, including photographs, artwork, and film clips
Generate resourceCritiquing viewpoints presented in editorial writing and political cartoons, including the use of symbols that represent viewpoints
Generate resourceDescribing the role of intentional and unintentional bias and flawed samplings
Generate resourceIdentify strategies that facilitate public discussion on societal issues, including debating various positions, using a deliberative process, blogging, and presenting public forums.
Generate resourceOrganize a service-learning project, including research and implementation, that addresses an identified community or global issue having an impact on the quality of life of individuals and groups.
Generate resourceDescribe spatial patterns of world populations to discern major clusters of population density and reasons for these patterns.
Generate resourceRecognize how human-environmental interaction affects culture in today's society.
Generate resourceDescribing ways the diffusion of ideas affects gender roles within societies
Generate resourceComparing dietary trends in Africa, Asia, the United States, Europe, and South America
Generate resourceTracing disease prevalence and efficiency of treatment around the world, including malaria, dengue fever, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), parasites, and obesity
Generate resourceCategorizing musical instruments as a means to understanding culture, including the didgeridoo in the aboriginal culture in Australia
Generate resourceExplaining how culture from various countries is expressed through adornments
Generate resourceExplaining how regions become major business centers of tourism and trade, including the cities of Dubai, Bangkok, New York, and Shanghai
Generate resourceIdentifying how trends, including ecotourism and the cruise industry, affect island culture in tropical areas
Generate resourceExplaining how Southeast Asian ethnic minorities, including Hmong, Lhasa, and Akha, adapt to life in the United States
Generate resourceTracing the migration of ethnic minorities in Kunming to urban cities in China
Generate resourceExplaining how the displacement of American Indians to reservations affected many areas of the United States, including Alabama
Generate resourceIdentify the characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.
Generate resourceExplaining essential aspects of culture, including social structure, languages, belief systems, customs, religion, traditions, art, food, architecture, and technology
Generate resourceDistinguishing various types of architecture, including rural, urban, and religious structures
Generate resourceInterpreting different ceremonies based on religious traditions, including marriages, funerals, and coming-of-age
Generate resourceAnalyze the interaction of urban places for their impact on surrounding regions.
Generate resourceExplain how economic interdependence and globalization impact many countries and their populations.
Generate resourceTrace the development of psychology as a scientific discipline evolving from other fields of study.
Generate resourceDescribing early psychological and biological inquiries that led to contemporary approaches and methods of experimentation, including ideologies of Aristotle, John Locke, Wilhelm Wundt, Charles Darwin, William James, Frantz Fanon, and G. Stanley Hall
Generate resourceDifferentiating among various modern schools of thought and perspectives in psychology that have evolved since 1879, including each school's view on concepts of aggression or appetite
Generate resourceIllustrating how modern psychologists utilize multiple perspectives to understand behavior and mental processes
Generate resourceIdentifying major subfields and career opportunities related to psychology
Generate resourceDescribing how understanding syntax and grammar affect language comprehension
Generate resourceDemonstrating how qualities of sign language are similar to spoken language
Generate resourceExplaining how hearing loss in infants and children can affect the development of spoken language
Generate resourceCompare various states of consciousness evident in human behavior, including the process of sleeping and dreaming.
Generate resourceExplaining states of sleep throughout an average night's sleep, including nonrapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM)
Generate resourceAnalyzing the use of psychoactive drugs for effects on people, including the mechanisms of addiction, withdrawal, and tolerance
Generate resourceIdentifying theories that explain motivational processes, including cognitive, biological, and psychological reasons for motivational behavior, and Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs and arousal theory
Generate resourceDescribing situational cues that cause emotions, including anger, curiosity, and anxiety
Generate resourceDescribe methods of assessing individual differences and theories of intelligence, including Charles E. Spearman's general (g) factor of intelligence, Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences, and Robert J. Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence.
Generate resourceDescribing different types of intelligence tests, including the Flynn effect
Generate resourceDescribing how intelligence may be influenced by differences in heredity and environment and by biases toward ethnic minority and socioeconomic groups
Generate resourceDifferentiating among personality theories, including psychoanalytic, sociocognitive, trait, and humanistic theories of personality
Generate resourceDescribing different measures of personality, including the Neuroticism-Extroversion-Openness Personality Inventory (NEO-PI), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and projective tests
Generate resourceDescribing different approaches for explaining mental illness, including biological and medical, cognitive, and sociocultural models
Generate resourceDifferentiating types of mental illness, including mood, anxiety, somatoform, schizophrenic, dissociative, and personality disorders
Generate resourceDescribe how attitudes, conditions of obedience and conformity, and other influences affect actions and shape human behavior, including actor-observer, self-server, social facilitation, social loafing, bystander effect, groupthink, and group polarization.
Generate resourceCritiquing Stanley Milgram's work with obedience and S. E. Asch's work with conformity
Generate resourceDescribe various careers pursued by psychologists, including medical and mental health care fields, the business world, education, law and criminal justice, and research.
Generate resourceDescribe research strategies used by psychologists to explore mental processes and behavior.
Generate resourceDescribing the type of methodology and strategies used by researchers in different psychological studies
Generate resourceContrasting independent, dependent, and confounding variables and control and experimental groups
Generate resourceIdentifying systematic procedures necessary for conducting an experiment and improving the validity of results
Generate resourceDescribing the use of statistics in evaluating research, including calculating the mean, median, and mode from a set of data; conducting a simple correlational analysis using either calculators or computer software; and explaining the meaning of statistical significance
Generate resourceExplain how processes of the central and peripheral nervous systems underlie behavior and mental processes, including how neurons are the basis for neural communication.
Generate resourceDescribing how neurons communicate, including the role of neurotransmitters in behavior and the electrochemical process
Generate resourceComparing the effect of drugs and toxins on the brain and neurotransmitters
Generate resourceDescribing how different sections of the brain have specialized yet interdependent functions, including functions of different lobes and hemispheres of the cerebral cortex and consequences of damage to specific sections of the brain
Generate resourceDescribing different technologies used to study the brain and nervous system
Generate resourceAnalyzing behavior genetics for its contribution to the understanding of behavior and mental processes, including differentiating between deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), chromosomes, and genes; identifying effects of chromosomal abnormalities; and explaining how genetics and environmental factors work together to determine inherited traits
Generate resourceExplaining the role of sensory systems in human behavior, including sight, sound, smell, touch, and pain
Generate resourceExplaining how what is perceived can be different from what is sensed, including how attention and environmental cues can affect the ability to accurately sense and perceive the world
Generate resourceDescribing physiological processes associated with stress, including hormones associated with stress responses
Generate resourceDescribing the flight-or-fight response in terms of the autonomic and somatic nervous systems
Generate resourceContrasting positive and negative ways of coping with stress related to problem-focused coping, aggression, and emotion-focused coping
Generate resourceExplaining approach-approach, approach-avoidance, and avoidance-avoidance conflicts
Generate resourceDescribe the physical, cognitive, and social development across the life span of a person from the prenatal through aging stages.
Generate resourceOutlining the stage-of-development theories of Jean Piaget, Erik H. Erikson, Sigmund Freud, Carol Gilligan, and Lawrence Kohlberg
Generate resourceDescribe the processes and importance of memory, including how information is encoded and stored, mnemonic devices, schemas related to short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory.
Generate resourceComparing ways memories are stored in the brain, including episodic and procedural
Generate resourceDescribe ways in which organisms learn, including the processes of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational conditioning.
Generate resourceIdentifying unconditioned stimuli (UCS), conditioned stimuli (CS), unconditioned responses (UCR), and conditioned responses (CR)
Generate resourceDescribing original experiments conducted by B. F. Skinner, Albert Bandura, Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and Rosalie Rayner
Generate resourceDifferentiating between reinforcement and punishment, positive and negative reinforcement, and various schedules of reinforcement
Generate resourceDescribe how organisms think and solve problems, including processes involved in accurate thinking.
Generate resourceIdentifying the role of mental images and verbal symbols in the thought process
Generate resourceAnalyzing different types of heuristics to determine effects on problem solving
Generate resourceIdentifying important figures in the field of sociology, including Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, George Herbert Mead, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Generate resourceIdentifying characteristics of sociology, including functional integration, power, social action, social structure, and culture
Generate resourceComparing various forms of collective behavior, including mobs, riots, fads, and crowds
Generate resourceExplaining the impact of the modern Civil Rights Movement, the women's movement, the gun rights movement, the green movement, and other minority movements in the United States
Generate resourceContrast population patterns using the birth rate, death rate, migration rate, and dependency rate.
Generate resourceAnalyzing factors that affect the depletion of natural resources for their impact on social and economic development
Generate resourceExplain methods and tools of research used by sociologists to study human society, including surveys, polls, statistics, demographic information, case studies, participant observations, and program evaluations.
Generate resourceComparing ways in which cultures differ, change, and resist change, including countercultures, subcultures, and ethnocentric beliefs
Generate resourceIllustrating key concepts of socialization, including self-concept, looking-glass self, significant others, and role-taking
Generate resourceDetermining the role of family, school, peer groups, and the media in socializing young people
Generate resourceIdentify antisocial behaviors, including social deviance, addiction, terrorism, anomie, and related arguments for the strain theory and the conflict theory.
Generate resourceContrasting violent crime, property crime, and victimless crime with white-collar crime
Generate resourceComparing methods for dealing with antisocial behavior, including imprisonment, restitution, community service, rehabilitation, education, and therapy
Generate resourceDescribe how environment and genetics affect personality, including self-concept and temperament.
Generate resourceIdentify stages of development across the life cycle, including birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, middle age, and late adulthood.
Generate resourceExplaining the relationship between social stratification and social class, including status ascription versus achievement, intergenerational social mobility, and structural occupational change
Generate resourceRelating the importance of group dynamics, including size, leadership, decision making, and gender roles
Generate resourceDistinguishing between the terms, race and ethnicity and prejudice and discrimination
Generate resourceDescribe the structure and function of the family unit, including traditional, extended, nuclear, single-parent, and blended families involving the roles of parent, child, and spouse.
Generate resourceIdentifying problems facing families, including abuse, divorce, teen pregnancy, poverty, addiction, family violence, and care of elderly family members
Generate resourceExplain the purpose of social systems and institutions, including schools, churches, voluntary associations, and governments.
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Generate resourceCompare an agricultural society and an industrial nation; identify specific examples of the transition from 1870 to prior to World War I.
Generate resourceRecognize major changes in the lives of Americans during World War II and how Alabama participated in the war.
Generate resourceIdentify Women’s participation in World War II including industry and volunteerism.
Generate resourceIdentify the role of African –Americans in World War II including the Tuskegee Airmen.
Generate resourceUnderstand how the international role of the United States greatly increased after 1945; identify key societal people and/or events during the Cold War; identify key locations of conflict during the Cold War.
Generate resourceDefine containment, espionage, McCarthyism, and the domino theory. Recognize how the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan attempted to stop the spread of communism.
Generate resourceList the countries that were members of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Generate resourceDescribe major social and scientific advances during the 1960s, identify programs that particularly benefitted Alabamians including the New Frontier, and the Marshall Flight Space Center in Huntsville, AL.
Generate resourceLocate North Vietnam and South Vietnam on a map, recognize the war in Vietnam as a conflict during the Cold War period.
Generate resourceUnderstand the purpose and goals of the civil rights movement from post-World War II to 1970; identify influential people, events, and outcomes of the civil rights movement.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast examples of changing social and cultural conditions during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
Generate resourceIdentify the major movements that occurred in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1070s, including the Feminist Movement, United Farm Workers and the American Indian Movement (AIM).
Generate resourceList significant domestic policies and issues of presidential administration from Richard Nixon to Present including Watergate, “Reaganomics,” Clinton Impeachment, Homeland Security, No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
Generate resourceList significant foreign events and issues during the presidential administrations from Richard Nixon to Present including DĂ©tente, Iranian Hostage Crisis, Fall of the Soviet Union, Persian Gulf War, and the War on Terrorism.
Generate resourceDefine agrarian society, assimilation, industrialization, urbanization, and immigration.
Generate resourceIdentify groups of western settlers, including areas of conflict with Native Americans.
Generate resourceIdentify various advancements made during the Western Expansion including windmills, barbed wire, revolver, and the transcontinental railroad.
Generate resourceIdentify the goals of the Progressive movement; identify people and/or describe major events and developments in the United States during the Progressive movement.
Generate resourceIdentify the causes, major events, and key figures of the Spanish American War; understand the United States transition to becoming a world power following the Spanish-American War.
Generate resourceDefine militarism, nationalism, imperialism, and alliances; understand that the United States entry into World War I had a significant impact on the outcome of the war; identify the consequences of World War I.
Generate resourceIdentify notable people of the 1920s including Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Andrew Wyeth, Frederick Remington, Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Henry Ford, W.C. Handy, Zora Neale Hurston, and Al Capone.
Generate resourceDefine economic depression; recognize the general causes of the Great Depression including overproduction of crops, stock market crash; recognize the effects of the Great Depression including collapse of the farm economy, unemployment, bank failure, homelessness and soup kitchens
Generate resourceDescribe the New Deal and identify reform programs intended to help people and strengthen the economy.
Generate resourceIdentify events leading to the outbreak of World War II; define Fascism, Nazism, Communism, appeasement, and neutrality. Identify Axis and Allied powers during World War II. Identify militarism of the Axis Powers. Recognize U.S. attempts to remain neutral.
Generate resourceDefine blitzkrieg, genocide, island – hopping, and concentration camps; locate key locations involved in World War II that led to global conflict; identify key events, people, and/or strategies involved in World War II.
Generate resourceGrade 11: United States History II: World War I to Present
Summarize conflicting viewpoints over the United States’ role in the world from the Spanish-American War to its entry into World War I.
Generate resourceEvaluate the influence of events, organizations, and individual actions on the expansion of the Civil Rights Movement nationally.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain key events from 1945 to 1955 that brought about the emergence of a large-scale movement for civil rights.
Generate resourceAnalyze the extent to which the actions and campaigns of civil rights activists and organizations from 1954 to 1965 prompted federal measures to advance civil and human rights.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the actions and philosophies of key civil rights leaders and organizations, including Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.
Generate resourceSummarize the political, economic, and physical means by which opponents of the Civil Rights Movement sought to limit its achievements.
Generate resourceDescribe how key Alabamians provided leadership, generated change, or demonstrated resistance to the Civil Rights Movement.
Generate resourceAnalyze how cultural changes, economic growth, and government action during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations shaped the daily lives of Americans.
Generate resourceEvaluate the effects of the arms and space races on the growth of the military-industrial complex.
Generate resourceDescribe the demographic and political changes that occurred as some populations shifted from cities to suburbs.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast major domestic initiatives of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and explain how Kennedy’s assassination led to both change and continuity in these initiatives.
Generate resourceInvestigate the major elements of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program and explain how it represents an attempt to expand the American social safety net, including the War on Poverty, Medicare, Medicaid, and Head Start.
Generate resourceExplain the evolution of America’s Cold War policy to defend democracy and contain communism around the world and how this led to an escalation in armed conflict during the 1960s.
Generate resourceAssess the effectiveness of John F. Kennedy’s foreign policy toward Cuba, including the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Generate resourceInvestigate and explain the effects of the domino theory and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution on United States involvement in the Vietnam conflict.
Generate resourceDescribe how significant events in the Vietnam War resulted in a decline of public support for American involvement in the conflict.
Generate resourceEvaluate the relationship between domestic social movements, including the New Left and counterculture movements, and America’s war in Vietnam and explain how the movements and the war each influenced public perception of the other.
Generate resourceExplain shifts in the scope of the Civil Rights Movement from the mid-1960s into the 1970s, including geographic regions, issues of focus, and participation.
Generate resourceExplain how the Civil Rights Movement inspired other movements for civil and human rights, and describe the contributions of groups and individuals to these movements.
Generate resourceEvaluate the social and political significance of the women’s rights movement from the 1960s to the 1980s on the lives of women in the United States.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast major Supreme Court decisions from the 1960s through the 1980s and explain how they reflect an ongoing national debate regarding the expansion and limits of civil liberties, civil rights, and constitutional protections.
Generate resourceDescribe how significant domestic events during the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter shaped United States economics, politics, and society.
Generate resourceTrace the events that fostered the emergence of the modern environmental movement and prompted government regulations as well as civic action.
Generate resourceOutline the events that led to the Watergate scandal and brought about the resignation of President Richard Nixon and the presidency of Gerald Ford.
Generate resourceIdentify the reasons for the economic fluctuations of the 1970s and evaluate the effectiveness of government action on the problem of stagflation.
Generate resourceDescribe significant foreign policy events during the presidencies of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter that decreased hostility in the Cold War.
Generate resourceAnalyze how America’s foreign policy decisions in the Vietnam War shaped Cold War actions in the 1970s, including détente and increased concern for human rights.
Generate resourceEvaluate how the United States’ increasing involvement in the Middle East during the 1970s affected both the region and the United States itself.
Generate resourceAnalyze the conservative revolution in American politics and how this shaped Ronald Reagan’s domestic and foreign policies.
Generate resourceDescribe the growth and composition of movement conservatism beginning in the 1960s, and explain how this culminated in the formation of the Reagan Coalition and led to his election in 1980.
Generate resourceAnalyze how Reaganomics and deregulation affected the American economy and society.
Generate resourceTrace the series of events during Reagan’s presidency leading to the emergence of the United States as the sole superpower, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Generate resourceAnalyze the shifts in United States foreign policy and challenges to it after the Cold War and into the twenty-first century.
Generate resourceInvestigate the role and influence of the United States in peacekeeping efforts around the world from the 1990s into the early twenty-first century.
Generate resourceEvaluate the effectiveness of the United States’ response to the September 11 attacks, including the war in Afghanistan, creation of the Department of Homeland Security, and passage of the USA PATRIOT Act.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom, including why they took place, the domestic political consequences of United States’ involvement in these conflicts, and the international implications for these wars.
Generate resourceEvaluate how political developments and technology shaped economic trends and fluctuations from the 1990s into the early twenty-first century.
Generate resourceTrace the evolution of the environmental movement and political debate over climate change from the 1980s to the present, including how environmental and natural disasters have shaped the discussion.
Generate resourceAssess the economic and political effects of immigration on the United States and explain how immigration policies have evolved in the post-Cold War era.
Generate resourceExplain how yellow journalism, jingoistic sentiments, and economic interests led to American entry into war with Spain.
Generate resourceDescribe the consequences of the Spanish-American War, including the United States’ rise to global prominence, debate over territorial expansion, and military intervention in Cuba and the Philippines.
Generate resourceTrace United States’ interventions around the world under Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick Diplomacy, William Howard Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy, and Woodrow Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the arguments of those in the United States who advocated for preparedness and those who sought neutrality from 1914 to 1917.
Generate resourceSummarize the events and factors that led to the United States entry into World War I.
Generate resourceTrace United States military involvement in World War I and the contributions of the American Expeditionary Force to the victory of the Allied Powers.
Generate resourceEvaluate how federal policies and legislation have shaped American society since 1988.
Generate resourceAssess how political events beginning with the Clinton presidency and into the early 2000s contributed to growing political polarization.
Generate resourceDescribe the significance of national elections from 1992 to the present, including the 2000 presidential recount in Florida and 2008 election of Barack Obama.
Generate resourceDescribe the roles of Black Americans as members of the military and on the home front during World War I, including the Harlem Hellfighters and the Great Migration.
Generate resourceDescribe the changing roles and rights of women in the United States that resulted from their contributions to World War I and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Generate resourceAnalyze how government actions in the United States during World War I produced both economic growth and social division.
Generate resourceCompare the reasons given by opposing sides in the debate over whether the United States should ratify the Treaty of Versailles (1919).
Generate resourceEvaluate how key figures, events, and trends shaped United States society and culture from the conclusion of World War I through the 1920s.
Generate resourceDescribe how the automobile, cinema, print media, and radio contributed to the rise in mass culture, economic growth, and expansion of the middle class during the 1920s.
Generate resourceExplain how art, literature, and music, including that produced by Alabamians, influenced both the Harlem Renaissance and the broader culture of the 1920s.
Generate resourceExplain why the 1920s comprised a period of significant social conflict as manifested by the Scopes trial, growth of the Ku Klux Klan, rise of nativist thinking, the Red Scare, and antisemitism.
Generate resourceSummarize the debate over prohibition and describe how prohibition contributed to social and cultural changes of the 1920s.
Generate resourceTrace the causes and course of Red Summer and subsequent violence into the 1920s, including the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes of the Great Depression, including the effects of overproduction, stock market speculation, buying on credit, international trade policy, and restrictive monetary policies.
Generate resourceDifferentiate between the ways Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt dealt with the Great Depression.
Generate resourceCritique the effectiveness of the New Deal in managing problems of the Great Depression through relief, recovery, and reform programs; expansion of the executive branch; and the application of Keynesian economic theory.
Generate resourceIdentify economic and social effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl on American society and describe how individuals addressed the challenges and sought to help others in need.
Generate resourceDescribe the effects of New Deal programs on Alabama, outlining the problems they sought to address.
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of the Great Depression and the resulting social programs on the American family and minority groups.
Generate resourceTrace the progression of events and policies leading to World War II and the United States’ entry into the war.
Generate resourceSummarize the United States’ foreign policies of isolationism and internationalism as World War II began and explain how the bombing of Pearl Harbor affected this approach.
Generate resourceCritique the evolving United States policy and public attitudes toward Nazi Germany and the growing refugee crisis as the Holocaust began.
Generate resourceAnalyze how United States military involvement shaped major events of World War II.
Generate resourceDevelop an argument supporting the thesis that major battles of World War II in which the United States was involved were turning points of the war and outline the impact of these battles on territorial occupation by the Allied and Axis powers.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the roles and leadership of United States leaders in securing victory for the Allied powers during World War II.
Generate resourceEvaluate the effectiveness of United States strategies in the war, including the decision to utilize atomic weapons on Japan.
Generate resourceDescribe the role of the United States military in helping end the Holocaust, including the liberation of concentration camps and participation in the Nuremberg Trials.
Generate resourceExplain how key consequences of World War II shaped United States foreign policy after the war.
Generate resourceAnalyze the domestic, economic, and civil rights impact of World War II on United States society.
Generate resourceDescribe Alabama's participation in World War II, including the role of the Tuskegee Airmen, housing prisoner of war (POW) camps, growth of the Port of Mobile, production of steel in Birmingham, and the establishment of military bases.
Generate resourceExplain how minority groups organized to gain access to wartime jobs and how they confronted discrimination, including the Bracero Program and Double V Campaign.
Generate resourceDescribe the experiences of Japanese Americans in World War II, including their internment on the home front and military contributions in Europe to Allied victory.
Generate resourceDescribe how World War II led to advances in mass media, medicine, science, and technology.
Generate resourceOutline the foreign policy changes that led the United States into the Cold War and contributed to its emergence as a superpower.
Generate resourceDevelop an argument regarding the effectiveness of the United States policy of containment that resulted from its growing ideological and political tensions with the Soviet Union.
Generate resourceCompare the application of the United States’ policy of containment to various areas of the world outside the Soviet Union in the late 1940s and 1950s.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain the origins of the United States’ involvement in the Korean War and the consequences of Harry Truman’s limited war plan for Korea.
Generate resourceAnalyze the domestic responses to the Cold War, including the impact of McCarthyism.
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Generate resourceUnited States Government
Generate resourceEvaluate constitutional provisions of the legislative branch of the government of the United States, including checks by the legislative branch on other branches of government.
Generate resourceComparing rules of operations and hierarchies of Congress, including roles of the Speaker of the House, the Senate President Pro Tempore, majority and minority leaders, and party whips
Generate resourceIdentifying the significance of Congressional committee structure and types of committees
Generate resourceTracing the legislative process, including types of votes and committee action, from a bill's presentation to presidential action
Generate resourceExplain historical and philosophical origins that shaped the government of the United States, including the Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights, the English Bill of Rights, the Mayflower Compact, the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and the influence of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean-Jaques Rousseau, and the Great Awakening.
Generate resourceComparing characteristics of limited and unlimited governments throughout the world, including constitutional, authoritarian, and totalitarian governments
Generate resourceEvaluate roles political parties play in the functioning of the political system of the United States.
Generate resourceDescribing the role of third-party candidates in political elections in the United States
Generate resourceExplaining major characteristics of contemporary political parties in the United States, including the role of conventions, party leadership, formal and informal memberships, and regional strongholds
Generate resourceDescribing the influence of political parties on individuals and elected officials, including the development of party machines, rise of independent voters, and disillusionment with party systems
Generate resourceEvaluate constitutional provisions of the executive branch of the government of the United States, including checks by the executive branch on other branches of government and powers, duties as head of state and head of government, the electoral process, and the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
Generate resourceCritiquing informal powers of the President of the United States, including press conferences, State of the Union addresses, total media access, head of party, and symbolic powers of the Oval Office
Generate resourceIdentifying the influence of White House staff on the President of the United States
Generate resourceRanking powers held by the President's Cabinet, including roles of Cabinet secretaries, appropriations by Congress, appointment and confirmation, and operation of organization
Generate resourceComparing diverse backgrounds, socioeconomic status, and levels of education of United States' presidents
Generate resourceEvaluate constitutional provisions of the judicial branch of government of the United States, including checks by the judicial branch on other branches of government, limits on judicial power, and the process by which cases are argued before the United States Supreme Court.
Generate resourceExplaining the structure and jurisdiction of court systems of the United States, including lower courts and appellate courts
Generate resourceIdentifying the impact of landmark United States Supreme Court cases on constitutional interpretation
Generate resourceDescribing the shifting political balance of the court system, including the appointment process, the ideology of justices, influences on court decisions regarding executive and legislative opinion, public opinion, and the desire for impartiality
Generate resourceContrasting strict and loose constructionist views of the Constitution of the United States
Generate resourceDescribe the role of citizens in American democracy, including the meaning, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship; due process and other rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States; and participation in the election process.
Generate resourceExplaining how the balance between individual versus majority rule and state versus national authority is essential to the functioning of the American democratic society
Generate resourceExplain the role and consequences of domestic and foreign policy decisions, including scientific and technological advancements and humanitarian, cultural, economic, and political changes.
Generate resourceSummarize the significance of the First and Second Continental Congresses, the Declaration of Independence, Shays' Rebellion, and the Articles of Confederation of 1781 on the writing and ratification of the Constitution of the United States of 1787 and the Bill of Rights of 1791.
Generate resourceAnalyze major features of the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights for purposes, organization, functions, and principles, including rule of law, federalism, limited government, popular sovereignty, judicial review, separation of powers, and checks and balances.
Generate resourceExplaining main ideas of the debate over ratification that included the Federalist papers
Generate resourceAnalyzing the Bill of Rights for its application to historical and current issues
Generate resourceOutlining the formal process of amending the Constitution of the United States
Generate resourceAnalyze the expansion of suffrage for its effect on the political system of the United States, including suffrage for non-property owners, women, African Americans, and persons eighteen years of age.
Generate resourceDescribing implications of participation of large numbers of minorities and women in parties and campaigns
Generate resourceAnalyzing the black codes, the Jim Crow laws, and the Selma-to-Montgomery March for their impact on the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Generate resourceDescribe the process of local, state, and national elections, including the organization, role, and constituency of political parties.
Generate resourceEvaluating the impact of reapportionment, redistricting, and voter turnout on elections
Generate resourceDescribe functions and the development of special interest groups and campaign contributions by political action committees and their impact on state and national elections.
Generate resourceAnalyzing rulings by the United States Supreme Court, including Buckley versus Valeo, regarding campaign financing to determine the effect on the election process
Generate resourceTrace the impact of the media on the political process and public opinion in the United States, including party press, penny press, print media, yellow journalism, radio, television, and electronic media.
Generate resourceAnalyzing television and electronic media for their impact on the election process and campaign spending from the John F. Kennedy-Richard M. Nixon debate to the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States
Generate resourceExplaining the effect of attack advertisements on voter selection of candidates
Generate resourceExplain how the federal system of the United States divides powers between national and state governments.
Generate resourceSummarizing obligations that the Constitution of the United States places on a nation for the benefit of the states, including admitting new states and cooperative federalism
Generate resourceCompare specific functions, organizations, and purposes of local and state governments, including implementing fiscal and monetary policies, ensuring personal security, and regulating transportation.
Generate resourceAnalyzing the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 to determine its impact on local funding and campaign funding
Generate resourceDescribe current news stories from various perspectives, including geographical, historical, political, social, and cultural.
Generate resourceEvaluating the impact of current news stories on the individual and on local, state, national, and international communities
Generate resourceInterpreting statistical data related to political, social, and economic issues in current events
Generate resourceCompare the relationship of governments and economies to events occurring in specific nations.
Generate resourceDescribing costs and benefits of trade among nations in an interdependent world
Generate resourceComparing ways different countries address individual and national economic and social problems, including child care, tax rates, economic regulations, health care, national debt, and unemployment
Generate resourceCompare civic responsibilities, individual rights, opportunities, and privileges of citizens of the United States to those of citizens of other nations.
Generate resourceAnalyze scientific and technological changes for their impact on the United States and the world.
Generate resourceAnalyze cultural elements, including language, art, music, literature, and belief systems, to determine how they facilitate global understanding or misunderstanding.
Generate resourceCompare information presented through various media, including television, newspapers, magazines, journals, and the Internet.
Generate resourceDescribing the use, misuse, and meaning of different media materials, including photographs, artwork, and film clips
Generate resourceCritiquing viewpoints presented in editorial writing and political cartoons, including the use of symbols that represent viewpoints
Generate resourceDescribing the role of intentional and unintentional bias and flawed samplings
Generate resourceIdentify strategies that facilitate public discussion on societal issues, including debating various positions, using a deliberative process, blogging, and presenting public forums.
Generate resourceOrganize a service-learning project, including research and implementation, that addresses an identified community or global issue having an impact on the quality of life of individuals and groups.
Generate resourceExplain why productive resources are limited and why individuals, businesses, and governments have to make choices in order to meet needs and wants.
Generate resourceExplaining scarcity as a basic condition that exists when unlimited wants exceed limited productive resources
Generate resourceExplaining land (an example of a natural resource), labor (an example of a human resource), capital (an example of a physical or human resource), and entrepreneurship to be the factors of production
Generate resourceExplaining opportunity cost as the next best alternative to relinquish when individuals, businesses, and governments confront scarcity by making choices
Generate resourceExplain the structure, role, and functions of the United States Federal Reserve System.
Generate resourceDescribing how the United States Federal Reserve System oversees the banking system and regulates the quantity of money in the economy
Generate resourceDescribing how the central bank uses its tools of monetary policy to promote price stability, full employment, and economic growth
Generate resourceExplain how the government uses fiscal policy to promote the economic goals of price stability, full employment, and economic growth.
Generate resourceExplain why individuals, businesses, and governments trade goods and services in the global economy.
Generate resourceExplaining how gains from trade, whether between two individuals or two countries, are based on the principle of comparative advantage
Generate resourceExplaining how changes in exchange rates impact purchasing powers of individuals and businesses
Generate resourceExplaining tariffs, quotas, embargoes, standards, and subsidies as trade barriers
Generate resourceExplaining why countries sometimes impose trade barriers and sometimes advocate free trade
Generate resourceExplain how rational decision making entails comparing additional costs of alternatives to additional benefits.
Generate resourceIllustrating on a production-possibilities curve how rational decision making involves trade-offs between two options
Generate resourceExplaining rational decision making as the comparison between marginal benefits and marginal costs of an action
Generate resourceDescribe different economic systems used to allocate scarce goods and services.
Generate resourceDescribing how different economic systems answer the three basic economic questions of what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce
Generate resourceEvaluating how each type of system addresses private ownership, profit motive, consumer sovereignty, competition, and government regulation
Generate resourceDescribe the role of government in a market economy, including promoting and securing competition, protecting private property rights, promoting equity, providing public goods and services, resolving externalities and other market failures, and stabilizing growth in the economy.
Generate resourceExplaining how government regulation and deregulation policies affect consumers and producers
Generate resourceExplain that a country's standard of living depends upon its ability to produce goods and services.
Generate resourceExplaining productivity as the amount of outputs, or goods and services, produced from inputs, or factors of production
Generate resourceDescribing how investments in factories, equipment, education, new technology, training, and health improve economic growth and living standards
Generate resourceDescribe how specialization and voluntary exchange between buyers and sellers lead to mutually beneficial outcomes.
Generate resourceIllustrating on a circular-flow diagram the product market; the factor market; the real flow of goods and services between and among businesses, households, and government; and the flow of money
Generate resourceDescribing the role of buyers and sellers in determining market clearing price
Generate resourceIllustrating on a table and graph how supply and demand determine equilibrium price and quantity
Generate resourceIllustrating on a graph of supply and demand how price movements eliminate shortages and surpluses
Generate resourceIllustrating on a graph how different factors cause changes in a market supply and demand
Generate resourceComparing types of business firms, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations
Generate resourceExplaining the role of profit as an incentive, including short-term versus long-run decisions, for all firms
Generate resourceDescribing basic characteristics of pure competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly
Generate resourceExplaining ways firms finance operations, including retained earnings, stocks, and debt, and the advantages and disadvantages of each
Generate resourceRecognizing the role of economic institutions, including labor unions and nonprofit organizations, in market economies
Generate resourceIdentifying regional characteristics of the labor force of the United States, including gender, race, socioeconomic background, education, age, and regional specialization
Generate resourceDescribing characteristics that are most likely to increase wage and nonwage benefits, including skill, productivity, education, occupation, and mobility
Generate resourceExplaining how unemployment and inflation impose costs on individuals and nations
Generate resourceDetermining the relationship of Alabama and the United States to the global economy regarding current technological innovations and industries
Generate resourceTracing the history of labor unions and methods of contract negotiation by labor and management
Generate resourceDescribe methods used to measure overall economic activity, including the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the Consumer Price Index (CPI), inflation, and unemployment.
Generate resourceExplaining how overall levels of income, employment, and prices are determined by spending decisions of households, businesses, and government; net exports in the short run; and production decisions of firms and technology in the long run
Generate resourceDescribing stages of the business cycle and how employment and inflation change during those stages
Generate resourceDescribe spatial patterns of world populations to discern major clusters of population density and reasons for these patterns.
Generate resourceRecognize how human-environmental interaction affects culture in today's society.
Generate resourceDescribing ways the diffusion of ideas affects gender roles within societies
Generate resourceComparing dietary trends in Africa, Asia, the United States, Europe, and South America
Generate resourceTracing disease prevalence and efficiency of treatment around the world, including malaria, dengue fever, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), parasites, and obesity
Generate resourceCategorizing musical instruments as a means to understanding culture, including the didgeridoo in the aboriginal culture in Australia
Generate resourceExplaining how culture from various countries is expressed through adornments
Generate resourceExplaining how regions become major business centers of tourism and trade, including the cities of Dubai, Bangkok, New York, and Shanghai
Generate resourceIdentifying how trends, including ecotourism and the cruise industry, affect island culture in tropical areas
Generate resourceExplaining how Southeast Asian ethnic minorities, including Hmong, Lhasa, and Akha, adapt to life in the United States
Generate resourceTracing the migration of ethnic minorities in Kunming to urban cities in China
Generate resourceExplaining how the displacement of American Indians to reservations affected many areas of the United States, including Alabama
Generate resourceIdentify the characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.
Generate resourceExplaining essential aspects of culture, including social structure, languages, belief systems, customs, religion, traditions, art, food, architecture, and technology
Generate resourceDistinguishing various types of architecture, including rural, urban, and religious structures
Generate resourceInterpreting different ceremonies based on religious traditions, including marriages, funerals, and coming-of-age
Generate resourceAnalyze the interaction of urban places for their impact on surrounding regions.
Generate resourceExplain how economic interdependence and globalization impact many countries and their populations.
Generate resourceTrace the development of psychology as a scientific discipline evolving from other fields of study.
Generate resourceDescribing early psychological and biological inquiries that led to contemporary approaches and methods of experimentation, including ideologies of Aristotle, John Locke, Wilhelm Wundt, Charles Darwin, William James, Frantz Fanon, and G. Stanley Hall
Generate resourceDifferentiating among various modern schools of thought and perspectives in psychology that have evolved since 1879, including each school's view on concepts of aggression or appetite
Generate resourceIllustrating how modern psychologists utilize multiple perspectives to understand behavior and mental processes
Generate resourceIdentifying major subfields and career opportunities related to psychology
Generate resourceDescribing how understanding syntax and grammar affect language comprehension
Generate resourceDemonstrating how qualities of sign language are similar to spoken language
Generate resourceExplaining how hearing loss in infants and children can affect the development of spoken language
Generate resourceCompare various states of consciousness evident in human behavior, including the process of sleeping and dreaming.
Generate resourceExplaining states of sleep throughout an average night's sleep, including nonrapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM)
Generate resourceAnalyzing the use of psychoactive drugs for effects on people, including the mechanisms of addiction, withdrawal, and tolerance
Generate resourceIdentifying theories that explain motivational processes, including cognitive, biological, and psychological reasons for motivational behavior, and Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs and arousal theory
Generate resourceDescribing situational cues that cause emotions, including anger, curiosity, and anxiety
Generate resourceDescribe methods of assessing individual differences and theories of intelligence, including Charles E. Spearman's general (g) factor of intelligence, Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences, and Robert J. Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence.
Generate resourceDescribing different types of intelligence tests, including the Flynn effect
Generate resourceDescribing how intelligence may be influenced by differences in heredity and environment and by biases toward ethnic minority and socioeconomic groups
Generate resourceDifferentiating among personality theories, including psychoanalytic, sociocognitive, trait, and humanistic theories of personality
Generate resourceDescribing different measures of personality, including the Neuroticism-Extroversion-Openness Personality Inventory (NEO-PI), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and projective tests
Generate resourceDescribing different approaches for explaining mental illness, including biological and medical, cognitive, and sociocultural models
Generate resourceDifferentiating types of mental illness, including mood, anxiety, somatoform, schizophrenic, dissociative, and personality disorders
Generate resourceDescribe how attitudes, conditions of obedience and conformity, and other influences affect actions and shape human behavior, including actor-observer, self-server, social facilitation, social loafing, bystander effect, groupthink, and group polarization.
Generate resourceCritiquing Stanley Milgram's work with obedience and S. E. Asch's work with conformity
Generate resourceDescribe various careers pursued by psychologists, including medical and mental health care fields, the business world, education, law and criminal justice, and research.
Generate resourceDescribe research strategies used by psychologists to explore mental processes and behavior.
Generate resourceDescribing the type of methodology and strategies used by researchers in different psychological studies
Generate resourceContrasting independent, dependent, and confounding variables and control and experimental groups
Generate resourceIdentifying systematic procedures necessary for conducting an experiment and improving the validity of results
Generate resourceDescribing the use of statistics in evaluating research, including calculating the mean, median, and mode from a set of data; conducting a simple correlational analysis using either calculators or computer software; and explaining the meaning of statistical significance
Generate resourceExplain how processes of the central and peripheral nervous systems underlie behavior and mental processes, including how neurons are the basis for neural communication.
Generate resourceDescribing how neurons communicate, including the role of neurotransmitters in behavior and the electrochemical process
Generate resourceComparing the effect of drugs and toxins on the brain and neurotransmitters
Generate resourceDescribing how different sections of the brain have specialized yet interdependent functions, including functions of different lobes and hemispheres of the cerebral cortex and consequences of damage to specific sections of the brain
Generate resourceDescribing different technologies used to study the brain and nervous system
Generate resourceAnalyzing behavior genetics for its contribution to the understanding of behavior and mental processes, including differentiating between deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), chromosomes, and genes; identifying effects of chromosomal abnormalities; and explaining how genetics and environmental factors work together to determine inherited traits
Generate resourceExplaining the role of sensory systems in human behavior, including sight, sound, smell, touch, and pain
Generate resourceExplaining how what is perceived can be different from what is sensed, including how attention and environmental cues can affect the ability to accurately sense and perceive the world
Generate resourceDescribing physiological processes associated with stress, including hormones associated with stress responses
Generate resourceDescribing the flight-or-fight response in terms of the autonomic and somatic nervous systems
Generate resourceContrasting positive and negative ways of coping with stress related to problem-focused coping, aggression, and emotion-focused coping
Generate resourceExplaining approach-approach, approach-avoidance, and avoidance-avoidance conflicts
Generate resourceDescribe the physical, cognitive, and social development across the life span of a person from the prenatal through aging stages.
Generate resourceOutlining the stage-of-development theories of Jean Piaget, Erik H. Erikson, Sigmund Freud, Carol Gilligan, and Lawrence Kohlberg
Generate resourceDescribe the processes and importance of memory, including how information is encoded and stored, mnemonic devices, schemas related to short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory.
Generate resourceComparing ways memories are stored in the brain, including episodic and procedural
Generate resourceDescribe ways in which organisms learn, including the processes of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational conditioning.
Generate resourceIdentifying unconditioned stimuli (UCS), conditioned stimuli (CS), unconditioned responses (UCR), and conditioned responses (CR)
Generate resourceDescribing original experiments conducted by B. F. Skinner, Albert Bandura, Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and Rosalie Rayner
Generate resourceDifferentiating between reinforcement and punishment, positive and negative reinforcement, and various schedules of reinforcement
Generate resourceDescribe how organisms think and solve problems, including processes involved in accurate thinking.
Generate resourceIdentifying the role of mental images and verbal symbols in the thought process
Generate resourceAnalyzing different types of heuristics to determine effects on problem solving
Generate resourceIdentifying important figures in the field of sociology, including Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, George Herbert Mead, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Generate resourceIdentifying characteristics of sociology, including functional integration, power, social action, social structure, and culture
Generate resourceComparing various forms of collective behavior, including mobs, riots, fads, and crowds
Generate resourceExplaining the impact of the modern Civil Rights Movement, the women's movement, the gun rights movement, the green movement, and other minority movements in the United States
Generate resourceContrast population patterns using the birth rate, death rate, migration rate, and dependency rate.
Generate resourceAnalyzing factors that affect the depletion of natural resources for their impact on social and economic development
Generate resourceExplain methods and tools of research used by sociologists to study human society, including surveys, polls, statistics, demographic information, case studies, participant observations, and program evaluations.
Generate resourceComparing ways in which cultures differ, change, and resist change, including countercultures, subcultures, and ethnocentric beliefs
Generate resourceIllustrating key concepts of socialization, including self-concept, looking-glass self, significant others, and role-taking
Generate resourceDetermining the role of family, school, peer groups, and the media in socializing young people
Generate resourceIdentify antisocial behaviors, including social deviance, addiction, terrorism, anomie, and related arguments for the strain theory and the conflict theory.
Generate resourceContrasting violent crime, property crime, and victimless crime with white-collar crime
Generate resourceComparing methods for dealing with antisocial behavior, including imprisonment, restitution, community service, rehabilitation, education, and therapy
Generate resourceDescribe how environment and genetics affect personality, including self-concept and temperament.
Generate resourceIdentify stages of development across the life cycle, including birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, middle age, and late adulthood.
Generate resourceExplaining the relationship between social stratification and social class, including status ascription versus achievement, intergenerational social mobility, and structural occupational change
Generate resourceRelating the importance of group dynamics, including size, leadership, decision making, and gender roles
Generate resourceDistinguishing between the terms, race and ethnicity and prejudice and discrimination
Generate resourceDescribe the structure and function of the family unit, including traditional, extended, nuclear, single-parent, and blended families involving the roles of parent, child, and spouse.
Generate resourceIdentifying problems facing families, including abuse, divorce, teen pregnancy, poverty, addiction, family violence, and care of elderly family members
Generate resourceExplain the purpose of social systems and institutions, including schools, churches, voluntary associations, and governments.
Generate resourceGrade 12: Economics
Investigate and share information on how scarcity can impact factors of production and the decision-making of individuals, businesses, and governments.
Generate resourceAnalyze the factors that determine and shape a country’s standard of living.
Generate resourceExplain how the relationship between inputs and outputs is used to calculate productivity at various levels of the economy.
Generate resourceExplain how investments in education, equipment, factories, healthcare, new technology, and training promote economic growth and enhance living standards.
Generate resourceResearch and share information on how Alabama and the United States relate to the global economy in terms of current technological innovations and technology-based industries.
Generate resourceExplain why individuals, businesses, and nations engage in trading goods and services in the global economy.
Generate resourceContrast absolute advantage to comparative advantage, and explain how they are used to measure gains from trade.
Generate resourceLocate and utilize current economic data to demonstrate how changes in exchange rates impact the purchasing power of individuals and businesses.
Generate resourceAnalyze why countries sometimes impose trade barriers and sometimes engage in free trade.
Generate resourceExplain the relationship between scarcity as a basic condition of economics and the decision-making needed to allocate limited resources.
Generate resourceExplain how land (natural resource), labor (human resource), capital (physical or human resource), and entrepreneurship function as factors of production.
Generate resourceCompare marginal benefits and marginal costs of an action, using rational decision-making.
Generate resourceAnalyze how changes in opportunity costs impact the rational decision-making of individuals, businesses, and governments.
Generate resourceIllustrate and explain how rational decision-making involves the consideration of trade-offs and opportunity costs.
Generate resourceCompare the methods that various economic systems use to allocate goods and services.
Generate resourceResearch and share information illustrating how different economic systems answer the basic economic questions of what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce.
Generate resourceCompare the ways that different economic systems address competition, consumer sovereignty, government regulation, private ownership, and profit motive.
Generate resourceDraw conclusions about how supply, demand, and price interact in a market economy.
Generate resourceUtilize circular flow diagrams to illustrate and explain the operation of the product market; the operation of the factor market; the real flow of goods and services between and among businesses, households, and government; and the flow of money.
Generate resourceApply the law of supply and demand to everyday consumer and business decisions.
Generate resourceExplain how prices serve as incentives in a market economy, and how factors other than price cause changes in supply and demand.
Generate resourceIllustrate and explain how supply and demand determine equilibrium price and quantity and how price movements eliminate shortages and surpluses.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast types of business firms, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations.
Generate resourceEvaluate the role of profit as an incentive for short- and long-term decisions by corporations, partnerships, and sole proprietorships.
Generate resourceDistinguish among the levels of competition that exist in market and mixed economic systems, including pure competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly.
Generate resourceResearch and present information on the role and impact of economic institutions on state and national economies, including labor unions and nonprofit organizations.
Generate resourceAnalyze data to describe the shifting demographics of the labor force of the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including age, education, gender, race, regional specialization, and socioeconomic background.
Generate resourceExplain how the characteristics of the labor force influence wages and non-wage benefits and affect economic growth.
Generate resourceExplain how the supply and demand of labor influence wage and non-wage benefits and affect economic growth.
Generate resourceResearch and explain ways the government influences the economy, including promoting and securing competition, protecting private property rights, distributing resources, providing public goods and services, resolving externalities and other perceived market failures, and stabilizing growth in the economy.
Generate resourceAssess how government regulation and deregulation affect consumers and producers.
Generate resourceExplain how the budgetary categories of government revenue and expenditures impact the collection of taxes and the distribution of resources.
Generate resourceExplain how economic measurements, including the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), inflation rates, labor force participation rate, and unemployment figures, are used to assess the overall economic health of the country.
Generate resourceAnalyze how spending and production decisions made by households, businesses, and government determine overall levels of income, employment, and prices.
Generate resourceDescribe the stages of the business cycle and explain how employment and inflation change during those stages.
Generate resourceExplain how unemployment and inflation affect individuals and nations, citing specific examples.
Generate resourceExplain how fiscal and monetary policy influence price stability, employment, and economic growth, citing examples from the past hundred years.
Generate resourceExplain how the United States Federal Reserve System regulates the banking system and uses its tools of monetary policy through an ample reserve system to achieve its economic goals.
Generate resourceDescribe how Congress and state legislatures use fiscal policy to achieve their economic, social, and political goals, including taxing, spending, grants, and mandates.
Generate resourceCorrelate fluctuations in government deficits over time to the extent of national debt during those periods.
Generate resourceGrade 12: Economics
ECONOMICS
Generate resourceDefine scarcity, land, and opportunity costs; understand the concepts of resources and wants and needs; recognize that productive resources are limited and why individuals, businesses, and governments have to make choices in order to meet needs and wants.
Generate resourceDefine the United States Federal Reserve System and describe its purpose.
Generate resourceUnderstand the concepts of price stability, full employment, and economic growth.
Generate resourceIdentify the benefits of trading with individuals, businesses, and other countries.
Generate resourceRecognize how changes in exchange rates affect trade including trade wars with China today.
Generate resourceUnderstand the concepts of costs and benefits; identify the trade-offs involved in economic decisions; recognize the associated costs and benefits of a given situation.
Generate resourceUnderstand that economic systems answer the three basic economic questions of what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce; identify how the three basic economic questions are answered in a mixed market economy.
Generate resourceRecognize the role of the government in a market economy; recognize examples of how the government is involved in the economy.
Generate resourceClassify government activities as specific examples of the government's role in the economy.
Generate resourceUnderstand the concepts of economic growth and standard of living; recognize ways to encourage economic growth.
Generate resourceUnderstand the concept of specializing and voluntary exchange between buyers and sellers; recognize the process of producing, selling, and buying goods and services in a market economy.
Generate resourceUnderstand the role of businesses in a market economy; recognize that businesses are important in the distribution of goods and services; recognize different business types and the goods and services they sell to consumers.
Generate resourceDefine labor; recognize that labor is an essential part of the economic system; identify characteristics that are most likely to increase wages and benefits.
Generate resourceIdentify ways the economy is measured and activities associated with a strong economy.
Generate resourceGrade 12: United States Government
Explain how Enlightenment principles informed the structure and principles of the United States government, its founding documents, its institutions, and the division of powers, as set forth in Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes, 1651), Two Treatises of Government (John Locke, 1689), The Spirit of the Laws (Montesquieu, 1748), The Social Contract (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762), and Treatise on Tolerance (Voltaire, 1763).
Generate resourceOutline major characteristics and functions of contemporary political parties in the United States, including the role of state and national conventions as well as party leadership.
Generate resourceDescribe how third-party candidates have historically affected elections in the United States, and evaluate the arguments for and against their inclusion in contemporary elections.
Generate resourceAssess the impact of political parties on citizens and elected officials, including the increase of political polarization, rise of independent voters, and disillusionment with party systems.
Generate resourceAnalyze the electoral process, focusing on election laws and systems at the national, state, and local levels, and explain their constitutional underpinnings, practical implementation, and effects on voter participation and representation in democratic governance.
Generate resourceOutline how the Electoral College functions and explain how candidates must appeal to a wide variety of states and develop coalitions in order to secure the electoral votes required to win the presidency.
Generate resourceEvaluate the effects of reapportionment, redistricting, and gerrymandering on congressional elections.
Generate resourceDescribe the rights and duties of citizens, including participation in the election process.
Generate resourceExplain why maintaining a balance between individual rights and majority rule and between state and national power is important for the functioning of the United States government.
Generate resourceOutline how the federal system of the United States divides powers between national and state governments.
Generate resourceCompare specific functions, organizations, and purposes of local and state governments.
Generate resourceDescribe the role of the national government in regulating and facilitating relations among states in the United States.
Generate resourceAnalyze how Dillon's Rule and Home Rule provisions in Alabama's 1901 Constitution affect local funding procedures and regulations.
Generate resourceAnalyze and interpret the concept of tribal sovereignty, its historical background, and its significance for Native American tribes in the United States, with a particular focus on tribes from Alabama.
Generate resourceDescribe how the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and events of the American Revolution influenced the drafting and ratification of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Generate resourceAnalyze the major features and structural organization of the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.
Generate resourceSummarize and explain the underlying principles of the Constitution, including checks and balances, federalism, limited government, popular sovereignty, republicanism, and separation of powers.
Generate resourceSummarize the formal process of amending the Constitution of the United States.
Generate resourceExplain how the Fourteenth Amendment extended rights to minority groups through the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses.
Generate resourceDescribe the role and responsibilities of the legislative branch, including the process of lawmaking, the power of the purse, and the system of checks and balances within Congress.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the leadership roles within Congress, including the Speaker of the House, the Senate President Pro Tempore, majority and minority leaders, and party whips.
Generate resourceIdentify the types of congressional committees and explain their roles in policy-making.
Generate resourceOutline the process by which a bill becomes a law, including introduction, committee review, floor debate, lobbyist actions, voting in both chambers, and presidential action.
Generate resourceAnalyze how the functions and authority of the executive branch evolve through changes in the scope of presidential powers, executive orders, executive agreements, and the role of the president in foreign and domestic policy.
Generate resourceDescribe how the president of the United States utilizes formal powers to achieve policy goals, including veto power, addressing the nation in the State of the Union Address, and the authority to pardon.
Generate resourceDescribe how the president of the United States uses informal powers to shape public opinion, including interaction with media and the public, head of party, and symbolic powers of the Oval Office.
Generate resourceExplain the role of the Cabinet and White House staff in the process of presidential decision-making.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the structures of the federal bureaucracy, including cabinet departments, independent regulatory commissions, government corporations, and independent executive agencies.
Generate resourceSummarize the functions and duties of the judicial branch, including the power of judicial review and interpretation of laws.
Generate resourceExplain the structure, jurisdiction, and processes of civil and criminal courts in the United States, including courts with original and appellate jurisdiction.
Generate resourceOutline and explain the process of appointing Supreme Court Justices and other federal judges.
Generate resourceContrast strict and loose constructionist views of the Constitution of the United States.
Generate resourceExplain how landmark United States Supreme Court cases have shaped the constitutional interpretation and expansion of civil liberties and civil rights.
Generate resourceDescribe the significance of Alabama landmark cases that impacted American society and governance.
Generate resourceAnalyze how the expansion of suffrage affected the political system of the United States, including the enfranchisement of non-property owners, women, Black Americans, and persons 18 to 20 years of age.
Generate resourceExplain how increases and shifts in political participation by minorities and other voting blocs shape political party coalitions, campaigns, and voter turnout.
Generate resourceDescribe how Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, and the Selma-to-Montgomery March influenced the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Generate resourceAnalyze historic and current barriers to voting access and voter turnout, and weigh the benefits and consequences of possible solutions.
Generate resourceDescribe how special interest groups and political action committees develop, how they function, and how their campaign contributions affect state and national elections.
Generate resourceSummarize the effects of campaign finance rulings by the United States Supreme Court on the election process.
Generate resourceAnalyze examples of legislation or policy decisions that reflect the influence of special interest groups, and describe methods by which these groups seek to sway the policy-making process.
Generate resourceExplain the role of the media in the political process, including how they shape public opinion.
Generate resourceAnalyze the influence of television and digital media on elections and campaign spending.
Generate resourceGrade 12: United States Government
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Generate resourceDefine government; contrast limited government and unlimited government; recognize documents and individuals who helped shape the government of the United States.
Generate resourceDefine political party and describe its job; identify and contrast the major political parties in the United States--Republican, Democratic, and/or nonaffiliated parties (Independent).
Generate resourceDefine legislative branch of government; identify the major roles and/or responsibilities of the legislative branch of government, recognize the legislative branch is made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate and identify the differences between them.
Generate resourceList in chronological order the steps by which a bill becomes a law.
Generate resourceDefine executive branch of government; identify the major roles and responsibilities of the executive branch of government; recognize that the executive branch is headed by the president of the United States.
Generate resourceClassify presidential powers as either constitutional, informal, or symbolic.
Generate resourceDefine judicial branch of government; identify the major roles and responsibilities of the judicial branch of government; recognize that the judicial branch is a court system with the Supreme Court serving as the highest court in the land.
Generate resourceIdentify the effect by which landmark decisions change the interpretation of constitutional provisions and rights.
Generate resourceUnderstand that citizens have rights and responsibilities; recognize rights that citizens are guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.
Generate resourceDefine and contrast domestic policy and foreign policy and recognize examples of each.
Generate resourceIdentify key philosophers, including Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Charles de Montesquieu, and Jean Jacques Rousseau.
Generate resourceIdentify key documents, including Magna Carta, Petition of Rights, English Bill of Rights, Mayflower Compact, and the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
Generate resourceRecognize the importance of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
Generate resourcePlace into chronological order key political events of the American Revolution.
Generate resourceIdentify the major purposes of the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.
Generate resourceOutline the possible paths taken to ratify an amendment to the Constitution.
Generate resourceDefine federalism; describe how powers are divided between the federal and state governments.
Generate resourceUnderstand the importance of voting and the expansion of voting rights; identify ways in which voting rights have expanded to be more inclusive and increase participation in the political system.
Generate resourceIdentify key constitutional amendments and laws that have allowed for the expansion of the right to vote.
Generate resourceIdentify key obstacles imposed during the Jim Crow era to limit suffrage rights.
Generate resourceIdentify key events in the Civil Rights Movement that led to the expansion of suffrage rights.
Generate resourceUnderstand that public officials are elected to office; recognize that elections are held at the local, state, and national level.
Generate resourceUnderstand that candidates for public office are often supported by groups of people called “special-interest groups” and “political action committees.”
Generate resourceIdentify ways candidates can get their message out to voters and ways voters can learn about candidates.
Generate resourceGrade 9
Human Geography
Generate resourceContemporary World Issues and Civic Engagement
Generate resourceSociology
Generate resourcePsychology
Generate resourceWorld History: 1500 to the Present
Generate resourceDescribe developments in Italy and Northern Europe during the Renaissance period with respect to humanism, arts and literature, intellectual development, increased trade, and advances in technology.
Generate resourceDescribe the influence of urbanization on the Western World during the nineteenth century.
Generate resourceDescribing the search for political democracy and social justice in the Western World
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of European nationalism and Western imperialism as forces of global transformation, including the unification of Italy and Germany, the rise of Japan's power in East Asia, economic roots of imperialism, imperialist ideology, colonialism and national rivalries, and United States' imperialism.
Generate resourceExplain causes and consequences of World War I, including imperialism, militarism, nationalism, and the alliance system.
Generate resourceIdentifying alliances during World War I and boundary changes after World War I
Generate resourceExplaining the rise of militarist and totalitarian states in Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Japan
Generate resourceIdentifying turning points of World War II in the European and Pacific Theaters
Generate resourceDescribe post-World War II realignment and reconstruction in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, including the end of colonial empires.
Generate resourceDescribe the role of nationalism, militarism, and civil war in today's world, including the use of terrorism and modern weapons at the close of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries.
Generate resourceDescribing the collapse of the Soviet Empire and Russia's struggle for democracy, free markets, and economic recovery and the roles of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Boris Yeltsin
Generate resourceDescribing effects of internal conflict, nationalism, and enmity in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Chile, the Middle East, Somalia and Rwanda, Cambodia, and the Balkans
Generate resourceCharacterizing the War on Terrorism, including the significance of the Iran Hostage Crisis; the Gulf Wars; the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Generate resourceDepicting geographic locations of major world events from 1945 to the present
Generate resourceDiscussing problems and opportunities involving science, technology, and the environment in the late twentieth century
Generate resourceIdentifying problems involving civil liberties and human rights from 1945 to the present and ways in which these problems have been addressed
Generate resourceRelating economic changes to social changes in countries adopting democratic forms of government
Generate resourceDescribe the role of mercantilism and imperialism in European exploration and colonization in the sixteenth century, including the Columbian Exchange.
Generate resourceIdentifying major ocean currents, wind patterns, landforms, and climates affecting European exploration
Generate resourceExplain causes of the Reformation and its impact, including tensions between religious and secular authorities, reformers and doctrines, the Counter-Reformation, the English Reformation, and wars of religion.
Generate resourceExplain the relationship between physical geography and cultural development in India, Africa, Japan, and China in the early Global Age, including trade and travel, natural resources, and movement and isolation of peoples and ideas.
Generate resourceDepicting the general location of, size of, and distance between regions in the early Global Age
Generate resourceDescribe the rise of absolutism and constitutionalism and their impact on European nations.
Generate resourceContrasting philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the belief in the divine right of kings
Generate resourceComparing absolutism as it developed in France, Russia, and Prussia, including the reigns of Louis XIV, Peter the Great, and Frederick the Great
Generate resourceIdentifying major provisions of the Petition of Rights and the English Bill of Rights
Generate resourceIdentify significant ideas and achievements of scientists and philosophers of the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment.
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of the French Revolution on Europe, including political evolution, social evolution, and diffusion of nationalism and liberalism.
Generate resourceIdentifying objectives of different groups participating in the French Revolution
Generate resourceCompare revolutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico.
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of technological inventions, conditions of labor, and the economic theories of capitalism, liberalism, socialism, and Marxism during the Industrial Revolution on the economies, societies, and politics of Europe.
Generate resourceDescribe current news stories from various perspectives, including geographical, historical, political, social, and cultural.
Generate resourceEvaluating the impact of current news stories on the individual and on local, state, national, and international communities
Generate resourceInterpreting statistical data related to political, social, and economic issues in current events
Generate resourceCompare the relationship of governments and economies to events occurring in specific nations.
Generate resourceDescribing costs and benefits of trade among nations in an interdependent world
Generate resourceComparing ways different countries address individual and national economic and social problems, including child care, tax rates, economic regulations, health care, national debt, and unemployment
Generate resourceCompare civic responsibilities, individual rights, opportunities, and privileges of citizens of the United States to those of citizens of other nations.
Generate resourceAnalyze scientific and technological changes for their impact on the United States and the world.
Generate resourceAnalyze cultural elements, including language, art, music, literature, and belief systems, to determine how they facilitate global understanding or misunderstanding.
Generate resourceCompare information presented through various media, including television, newspapers, magazines, journals, and the Internet.
Generate resourceDescribing the use, misuse, and meaning of different media materials, including photographs, artwork, and film clips
Generate resourceCritiquing viewpoints presented in editorial writing and political cartoons, including the use of symbols that represent viewpoints
Generate resourceDescribing the role of intentional and unintentional bias and flawed samplings
Generate resourceIdentify strategies that facilitate public discussion on societal issues, including debating various positions, using a deliberative process, blogging, and presenting public forums.
Generate resourceOrganize a service-learning project, including research and implementation, that addresses an identified community or global issue having an impact on the quality of life of individuals and groups.
Generate resourceDescribe spatial patterns of world populations to discern major clusters of population density and reasons for these patterns.
Generate resourceRecognize how human-environmental interaction affects culture in today's society.
Generate resourceDescribing ways the diffusion of ideas affects gender roles within societies
Generate resourceComparing dietary trends in Africa, Asia, the United States, Europe, and South America
Generate resourceTracing disease prevalence and efficiency of treatment around the world, including malaria, dengue fever, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), parasites, and obesity
Generate resourceCategorizing musical instruments as a means to understanding culture, including the didgeridoo in the aboriginal culture in Australia
Generate resourceExplaining how culture from various countries is expressed through adornments
Generate resourceExplaining how regions become major business centers of tourism and trade, including the cities of Dubai, Bangkok, New York, and Shanghai
Generate resourceIdentifying how trends, including ecotourism and the cruise industry, affect island culture in tropical areas
Generate resourceExplaining how Southeast Asian ethnic minorities, including Hmong, Lhasa, and Akha, adapt to life in the United States
Generate resourceTracing the migration of ethnic minorities in Kunming to urban cities in China
Generate resourceExplaining how the displacement of American Indians to reservations affected many areas of the United States, including Alabama
Generate resourceIdentify the characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.
Generate resourceExplaining essential aspects of culture, including social structure, languages, belief systems, customs, religion, traditions, art, food, architecture, and technology
Generate resourceDistinguishing various types of architecture, including rural, urban, and religious structures
Generate resourceInterpreting different ceremonies based on religious traditions, including marriages, funerals, and coming-of-age
Generate resourceAnalyze the interaction of urban places for their impact on surrounding regions.
Generate resourceExplain how economic interdependence and globalization impact many countries and their populations.
Generate resourceTrace the development of psychology as a scientific discipline evolving from other fields of study.
Generate resourceDescribing early psychological and biological inquiries that led to contemporary approaches and methods of experimentation, including ideologies of Aristotle, John Locke, Wilhelm Wundt, Charles Darwin, William James, Frantz Fanon, and G. Stanley Hall
Generate resourceDifferentiating among various modern schools of thought and perspectives in psychology that have evolved since 1879, including each school's view on concepts of aggression or appetite
Generate resourceIllustrating how modern psychologists utilize multiple perspectives to understand behavior and mental processes
Generate resourceIdentifying major subfields and career opportunities related to psychology
Generate resourceDescribing how understanding syntax and grammar affect language comprehension
Generate resourceDemonstrating how qualities of sign language are similar to spoken language
Generate resourceExplaining how hearing loss in infants and children can affect the development of spoken language
Generate resourceCompare various states of consciousness evident in human behavior, including the process of sleeping and dreaming.
Generate resourceExplaining states of sleep throughout an average night's sleep, including nonrapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM)
Generate resourceAnalyzing the use of psychoactive drugs for effects on people, including the mechanisms of addiction, withdrawal, and tolerance
Generate resourceIdentifying theories that explain motivational processes, including cognitive, biological, and psychological reasons for motivational behavior, and Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs and arousal theory
Generate resourceDescribing situational cues that cause emotions, including anger, curiosity, and anxiety
Generate resourceDescribe methods of assessing individual differences and theories of intelligence, including Charles E. Spearman's general (g) factor of intelligence, Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences, and Robert J. Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence.
Generate resourceDescribing different types of intelligence tests, including the Flynn effect
Generate resourceDescribing how intelligence may be influenced by differences in heredity and environment and by biases toward ethnic minority and socioeconomic groups
Generate resourceDifferentiating among personality theories, including psychoanalytic, sociocognitive, trait, and humanistic theories of personality
Generate resourceDescribing different measures of personality, including the Neuroticism-Extroversion-Openness Personality Inventory (NEO-PI), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and projective tests
Generate resourceDescribing different approaches for explaining mental illness, including biological and medical, cognitive, and sociocultural models
Generate resourceDifferentiating types of mental illness, including mood, anxiety, somatoform, schizophrenic, dissociative, and personality disorders
Generate resourceDescribe how attitudes, conditions of obedience and conformity, and other influences affect actions and shape human behavior, including actor-observer, self-server, social facilitation, social loafing, bystander effect, groupthink, and group polarization.
Generate resourceCritiquing Stanley Milgram's work with obedience and S. E. Asch's work with conformity
Generate resourceDescribe various careers pursued by psychologists, including medical and mental health care fields, the business world, education, law and criminal justice, and research.
Generate resourceDescribe research strategies used by psychologists to explore mental processes and behavior.
Generate resourceDescribing the type of methodology and strategies used by researchers in different psychological studies
Generate resourceContrasting independent, dependent, and confounding variables and control and experimental groups
Generate resourceIdentifying systematic procedures necessary for conducting an experiment and improving the validity of results
Generate resourceDescribing the use of statistics in evaluating research, including calculating the mean, median, and mode from a set of data; conducting a simple correlational analysis using either calculators or computer software; and explaining the meaning of statistical significance
Generate resourceExplain how processes of the central and peripheral nervous systems underlie behavior and mental processes, including how neurons are the basis for neural communication.
Generate resourceDescribing how neurons communicate, including the role of neurotransmitters in behavior and the electrochemical process
Generate resourceComparing the effect of drugs and toxins on the brain and neurotransmitters
Generate resourceDescribing how different sections of the brain have specialized yet interdependent functions, including functions of different lobes and hemispheres of the cerebral cortex and consequences of damage to specific sections of the brain
Generate resourceDescribing different technologies used to study the brain and nervous system
Generate resourceAnalyzing behavior genetics for its contribution to the understanding of behavior and mental processes, including differentiating between deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), chromosomes, and genes; identifying effects of chromosomal abnormalities; and explaining how genetics and environmental factors work together to determine inherited traits
Generate resourceExplaining the role of sensory systems in human behavior, including sight, sound, smell, touch, and pain
Generate resourceExplaining how what is perceived can be different from what is sensed, including how attention and environmental cues can affect the ability to accurately sense and perceive the world
Generate resourceDescribing physiological processes associated with stress, including hormones associated with stress responses
Generate resourceDescribing the flight-or-fight response in terms of the autonomic and somatic nervous systems
Generate resourceContrasting positive and negative ways of coping with stress related to problem-focused coping, aggression, and emotion-focused coping
Generate resourceExplaining approach-approach, approach-avoidance, and avoidance-avoidance conflicts
Generate resourceDescribe the physical, cognitive, and social development across the life span of a person from the prenatal through aging stages.
Generate resourceOutlining the stage-of-development theories of Jean Piaget, Erik H. Erikson, Sigmund Freud, Carol Gilligan, and Lawrence Kohlberg
Generate resourceDescribe the processes and importance of memory, including how information is encoded and stored, mnemonic devices, schemas related to short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory.
Generate resourceComparing ways memories are stored in the brain, including episodic and procedural
Generate resourceDescribe ways in which organisms learn, including the processes of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational conditioning.
Generate resourceIdentifying unconditioned stimuli (UCS), conditioned stimuli (CS), unconditioned responses (UCR), and conditioned responses (CR)
Generate resourceDescribing original experiments conducted by B. F. Skinner, Albert Bandura, Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and Rosalie Rayner
Generate resourceDifferentiating between reinforcement and punishment, positive and negative reinforcement, and various schedules of reinforcement
Generate resourceDescribe how organisms think and solve problems, including processes involved in accurate thinking.
Generate resourceIdentifying the role of mental images and verbal symbols in the thought process
Generate resourceAnalyzing different types of heuristics to determine effects on problem solving
Generate resourceIdentifying important figures in the field of sociology, including Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, George Herbert Mead, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Generate resourceIdentifying characteristics of sociology, including functional integration, power, social action, social structure, and culture
Generate resourceComparing various forms of collective behavior, including mobs, riots, fads, and crowds
Generate resourceExplaining the impact of the modern Civil Rights Movement, the women's movement, the gun rights movement, the green movement, and other minority movements in the United States
Generate resourceContrast population patterns using the birth rate, death rate, migration rate, and dependency rate.
Generate resourceAnalyzing factors that affect the depletion of natural resources for their impact on social and economic development
Generate resourceExplain methods and tools of research used by sociologists to study human society, including surveys, polls, statistics, demographic information, case studies, participant observations, and program evaluations.
Generate resourceComparing ways in which cultures differ, change, and resist change, including countercultures, subcultures, and ethnocentric beliefs
Generate resourceIllustrating key concepts of socialization, including self-concept, looking-glass self, significant others, and role-taking
Generate resourceDetermining the role of family, school, peer groups, and the media in socializing young people
Generate resourceIdentify antisocial behaviors, including social deviance, addiction, terrorism, anomie, and related arguments for the strain theory and the conflict theory.
Generate resourceContrasting violent crime, property crime, and victimless crime with white-collar crime
Generate resourceComparing methods for dealing with antisocial behavior, including imprisonment, restitution, community service, rehabilitation, education, and therapy
Generate resourceDescribe how environment and genetics affect personality, including self-concept and temperament.
Generate resourceIdentify stages of development across the life cycle, including birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, middle age, and late adulthood.
Generate resourceExplaining the relationship between social stratification and social class, including status ascription versus achievement, intergenerational social mobility, and structural occupational change
Generate resourceRelating the importance of group dynamics, including size, leadership, decision making, and gender roles
Generate resourceDistinguishing between the terms, race and ethnicity and prejudice and discrimination
Generate resourceDescribe the structure and function of the family unit, including traditional, extended, nuclear, single-parent, and blended families involving the roles of parent, child, and spouse.
Generate resourceIdentifying problems facing families, including abuse, divorce, teen pregnancy, poverty, addiction, family violence, and care of elderly family members
Generate resourceExplain the purpose of social systems and institutions, including schools, churches, voluntary associations, and governments.
Generate resourceGrade 9
WORLD HISTORY: 1500 TO THE PRESENT
Generate resourceDefine Renaissance; recognize art, music, and literature as cultural characteristics of the Renaissance.
Generate resourceDefine urbanization; recognize changes in society as a result of the Industrial Revolution;
Generate resourceIdentify leaders of the women’s rights movement including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, and Susan B. Anthony.
Generate resourceIdentify leaders of the abolitionist movement including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Tubman.
Generate resourceIdentify the Emancipation Proclamation, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
Generate resourceDefine total war; identify key events and/or people from World War I; describe military technology used during World War I.
Generate resourceIdentify problems created by the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 including Germany’s reparations and the war guilt clause.
Generate resourceIdentify alliances during World War I and boundary changes after World War I.
Generate resourceIdentify the causes and effects of the Great Depression including the stock market crash, collapse of farm economy, Dust Bowl, collapse of savings and loans banks, inflation, poverty, homelessness, soup kitchens, and unemployment.
Generate resourceDefine global conflict and describe how World War II was a global conflict; recognize social, economic, and/or political changes, key events, and people from World War II including the Holocaust, Atomic Age, and the Nuremberg Trials. SS.AAS.9.14a- Identify turning points of World War II in the European and Pacific Theaters.
Generate resourceIdentify the map changes in national borders as a result of World War II.
Generate resourceIdentify the Axis and Allied Powers. SS.AAS.9.14d- Identify the end results of World War II including VE-Day and VJ-Day.
Generate resourceRecognize causes of the Cold War and the United States’ new role in world affairs; identify key events and/or people of the Cold War.
Generate resourceList some changes in world conditions that led to globalization from 1945–present; recall the definition of globalization; define terrorism and recognize its impact on the world.
Generate resourceDefine and list characteristics of democracy including civil liberties, human rights and separation of powers.
Generate resourceList the advances in technology that led to increased trade. Example the printing press.
Generate resourceIdentify major European countries on a map of Europe; define exploration, imperialism, colonization, and mercantilism.
Generate resourceIdentify major ocean currents, wind patterns, landforms, and climates by marking them on a map.
Generate resourceDefine Reformation, counter-Reformation, English Reformation, and religious and secular authorities; identify key events and/or people of the Reformation.
Generate resourceIdentify the location, geographical resources, and natural resources of Africa, India, Japan, and/or China; recognize that trade between countries leads to cultural development.
Generate resourceDefine natural right; identify common characteristics of a monarchy and of a constitutional government.
Generate resourceIdentify the Petition of Rights and the English Bill of Rights by giving examples of civil liberties and limited government.
Generate resourceRecognize important factors of the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment; identify the scientific advancements that led to the Enlightenment.
Generate resourceList the causes and effects of the revolutions in Latin America and the Caribbean including Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico.
Generate resourceDefine capitalism, liberalism, socialism, Marxism; identify important inventors in Europe during the Industrial Revolution.
Generate resourceGrade 9: World History and Geography: Age of Revolution to Present
Explain how the Enlightenment influenced societies and inspired revolutions in Europe and the Americas.
Generate resourceEvaluate the economic, global, political, and social consequences of World War II.
Generate resourceAnalyze the role of major Axis and Allied leaders during World War II, including both political and military leaders.
Generate resourceDescribe major turning points of World War II in the European, North Africa, and Pacific theaters and identify the locations of these events.
Generate resourceCompare the experiences of civilians in different countries involved in conflict during World War II.
Generate resourceExplain the Holocaust as the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and mass murder of Europe’s Jews and other minorities by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945.
Generate resourceDescribe how the Nazis built upon historical antisemitism to dehumanize Jewish people and frame them as the enemy of the German people.
Generate resourceTrace how the Nazis’ plan for the European Jews evolved from 1933 to the Final Solution.
Generate resourceExplain the roles of different types of camps in the Holocaust, including slave labor, transit, concentration camps, and killing centers.
Generate resourceTrace the events that led to Victory in Europe (VE) Day, and explain how the use of atomic bombs ended the war in the Pacific Theater.
Generate resourceExplain the origins, conduct, and outcomes of the Nuremberg Trials and Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.
Generate resourceExplain the origins of the Cold War as they relate to the economic, global, political, and social consequences of World War II.
Generate resourceIdentify major international organizations and the spheres of influence that developed as the result of World War II and the emergence of Cold War hostilities, including North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), United Nations (UN), and Warsaw Pact.
Generate resourceCompare political ideologies that existed within the United States, the Soviet Union, and People’s Republic of China after World War II.
Generate resourceDescribe the development and conclusion of the Chinese Civil War, including the formation of Taiwan, and how the Chinese Communist Party sought to impose its vision under the rule of Mao Zedong.
Generate resourceExplain realignment and reconstruction in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America after World War II, including the decline of colonial empires.
Generate resourceDescribe the efforts of people under colonial rule to establish their independence and resistance to these efforts, including the Zionist movement.
Generate resourceAnalyze how economic aid expanded spheres of influence, including the Marshall Plan and Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON).
Generate resourceTrace the progression of the Cold War from the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Generate resourceExplain the development of new technologies and their significance in the nuclear arms race and space race.
Generate resourceEvaluate the extent to which efforts to contain or spread communism contributed to global conflict.
Generate resourceDescribe the collapse of the Soviet Empire; Russia’s struggle for democracy, free markets, and economic recovery; and the roles of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Boris Yeltsin in bringing the Cold War to a conclusion.
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes and effects of both regional and internal conflicts in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Generate resourceCritique the response of the world community to mass atrocities and violations of human rights and civil liberties in various nations and regions.
Generate resourceTrace the origin of the Arab-Israeli conflict following the establishment of the State of Israel and explain its impact on the global community.
Generate resourceEvaluate the causes of terrorist movements from the 1970s into the 2000s, including the September 11 attacks, and government responses to them.
Generate resourceAssess the consequences of modern conflicts on populations, including famine, refugee crises, and the use of child soldiers.
Generate resourceDescribe the influence of internal conflict, nationalism, and factional enmity in various nations and regions.
Generate resourceAnalyze the effects of economic interdependence and globalization on places and their populations.
Generate resourceExplain motivations for countries to enter into global trade agreements.
Generate resourceDescribe how economic challenges confronting least developed and developing countries impact their political system and society.
Generate resourceDescribe the interrelationship between people and the environment in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Generate resourceResearch major natural disasters and evaluate the effects of changes in weather, climate, and natural resource usage on regional identity.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the current consumption of natural resources in various countries across the world.
Generate resourceExplain problems and opportunities involving science, technology, and worldwide communication, including the Internet, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the emerging ideas of Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Montesquieu, and Voltaire.
Generate resourceExplain how the Reign of Terror affected the French Revolution, including Robespierre and the guillotine.
Generate resourceDescribe the effects of the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Congress of Vienna on the geography, politics, and society of Europe.
Generate resourceExplain the causes and outcomes of the revolutions of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Generate resourceIdentify the locations of colonial empires and post-revolutionary countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Generate resourceAnalyze the leadership of revolutionary leaders, including SimĂłn Bolivar and Toussaint Louverture.
Generate resourceExplain how changes associated with the Industrial Revolution affected the economies, societies, and politics of Europe.
Generate resourceDescribe the technological inventions and labor conditions that characterized the Industrial Revolution in Europe.
Generate resourceCompare the theories of capitalism, utilitarianism, socialism, and Marxism, including the philosophies of John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Robert Owen.
Generate resourceDescribe the effects of urbanization on Europe during the nineteenth century, including the evolution of the middle and working classes.
Generate resourceEvaluate the influence of the Revolutions of 1848 on European politics and society.
Generate resourceAnalyze how the international balance of power shifted as a result of the unification of Germany, the decline of the Ottoman Empire, and the emergence of international rivalries.
Generate resourceAnalyze the rise of Japan’s power in East Asia beginning with the Meiji Restoration.
Generate resourceTrace the origins of late nineteenth century imperialism, imperialist ideology, and colonialism.
Generate resourceSummarize how the actions of imperialist nations affected cultures and peoples of Africa and Asia, and explain how these peoples resisted imperialization.
Generate resourceIdentify Western nations’ spheres of influence in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that resulted from nineteenth and twentieth century imperialism.
Generate resourceExplain causes and consequences of World War I, including imperialism, militarism, nationalism, and the alliance system.
Generate resourceAssess the effects of trench warfare and new military technologies on combat during World War I.
Generate resourceDescribe the rise of the Bolsheviks and Soviet ideology in Russia during and after World War I.
Generate resourceExplain the consequences of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, including political and boundary changes.
Generate resourceAnalyze the global cultural, economic, and political developments immediately following World War I.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast political ideologies that emerged in Europe following World War I, including communism, fascism, and social democracy.
Generate resourceSummarize the effects of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, including the rise of Arab nationalism and the European Mandate System.
Generate resourceSummarize the conditions of the global Great Depression and explain how they led to the rise of totalitarian states and the weakening of democratic nations.
Generate resourceDescribe how Joseph Stalin sought to consolidate his own rule and strengthen socialism in the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1939.
Generate resourceTrace Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, describing Nazi ideology and the use of propaganda to advance his political and racial goals.
Generate resourceAnalyze the rise of militarism in Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1930s and explain how it led to war.
Generate resourceHistorical Studies
Describe how a selected historical subject is currently remembered or regarded, explaining how historical memory contributes to current thinking about the event.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain examples of how the historical subject is currently represented.
Generate resourceExplain factors that have influenced or shaped how the historical subject is viewed in modern day.
Generate resourceDescribe the strengths and limitations of different types of secondary sources for providing insight into the selected historical subject.
Generate resourceApply the concept of historiography through contrasting how various historians have interpreted the historical subject.
Generate resourceExplain how historic preservation has been or can be used to impact historical memory of the subject.
Generate resourceDescribe different methods of historical preservation, and identify examples of these methods.
Generate resourceLocate and utilize a variety of primary sources related to the selected historical subject.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the types of evidence provided by various primary sources.
Generate resourceDescribe the strengths and limitations of different types of primary sources for providing insight into the selected historical subject.
Generate resourceDifferentiate between primary and secondary sources on the subject and evaluate the quality of evidence each type yields.
Generate resourceCompare historical methods utilized for research and evaluate how these methods yield information regarding the selected historical subject.
Generate resourceConstruct and refine a research question to address an aspect of the subject that is not well-known or has not been widely reported, basing the question on their examination of literature and historiography of the subject.
Generate resourceUtilize various historical methods to acquire information on the selected subject and relate findings to the research question created.
Generate resourceCompare historical evidence to previous interpretations and corroborate salient facts and theories.
Generate resourceEvaluate the effectiveness of different methods of presenting historical findings to an audience.
Generate resourceHolocaust Studies
Defend the definition of the Holocaust as the planned and systematic state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.*
Generate resourceSummarize the German T4 (“euthanasia”) Program, including its origins and purposes, and explain how it contributed to the Final Solution.*
Generate resourceSummarize the events leading to the outbreak of World War II and how Germany’s actions violated the Treaty of Versailles.*
Generate resourceAnalyze Hitler’s motivations for the annexations of Austria and the Sudetenland and the invasion of Poland.
Generate resourceEvaluate the significance of the German invasion of the Soviet Union and how the “Commissar Order” reflected an extension of Nazi racial policies.*
Generate resourceExplain how killing squads, including the Einsatzgruppen, conducted mass shooting operations in Eastern Europe with the assistance of the Schutzstaffel (SS), police units, the army, and local collaborators.*
Generate resourceIdentify tactics utilized by the Nazis to control, isolate, and weaken Jewish people in the ghettos.
Generate resourceIdentify and summarize the key characteristics of the Final Solution, and describe how it was driven by Nazi ideology.*
Generate resourceDifferentiate among the types of camps utilized by the Nazis, including their origins, purposes, and the conditions associated with them.*
Generate resourceOutline the arrival, selection, and process components of a prisoner’s entry into a camp.*
Generate resourceCritique the role that bystanders, collaborators, and perpetrators played in the implementation of Nazi policies against Jewish people and other targeted groups.*
Generate resourceAssess the effectiveness of different armed and unarmed resistance efforts in Europe from 1933 to 1945, including individuals who opposed the Nazis and their policies.*
Generate resourceExplain how and why Jewish partisans undertook armed resistance against the Germans and their Axis partners.
Generate resourceCritique the responses considered by the Roosevelt administration and the United States military to the suffering of European Jews in the Holocaust.*
Generate resourceEvaluate American and Allied officials’ knowledge of and response to the Final Solution.
Generate resourceExplain the role of the United States military in liberating concentration camps.
Generate resourceIdentify the locations of concentration camps liberated by American, British, and Red Army soldiers.
Generate resourceEvaluate the effect of Nazi policies on other groups targeted by the government of Nazi Germany, including the Roma, Sinti, and people with disabilities.*
Generate resourceOutline the chronology of the Allied advance into Germany and the German surrender.
Generate resourceDescribe the experience of Holocaust survivors and other displaced persons following World War II.*
Generate resourceResearch and report on the lives of Holocaust survivors who settled in Alabama after World War II.
Generate resourceEvaluate the extent to which the legal responses, including the Nuremberg Trials, held Nazi officials to account for war crimes and crimes against humanity.*
Generate resourceAssess the contributions of Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson and the arguments he made as Chief Prosecutor for the United States at the Nuremberg Trials.
Generate resourceAnalyze the influence of the Holocaust on the drafting and substance of the 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
Generate resourceExplain the effects of the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961 on policy concerning crimes against humanity, capital punishment, accountability, and the testimony of survivors.
Generate resourceDevelop an argument regarding the need for education about the Holocaust and how museums, memorials, and organizations can be used to preserve memory and combat Holocaust denial.*
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes and effects of modern-day genocides, and identify the groups involved.
Generate resourceExplain how the concepts of personal and civic responsibility have evolved following the Holocaust.*
Generate resourceIdentify core practices and tenets within historical and modern Judaism and analyze the historical and modern antisemitic beliefs about Jewish life and religion.
Generate resourceAnalyze how the Nazi regime utilized and built on historical antisemitism to cast the Jewish people as a common enemy.*
Generate resourceTrace the intensification of antisemitism in the United States during the early twentieth century.
Generate resourceDescribe cultural, economic, and social aspects of pre-war Jewish life in Europe and explain how these aspects differed across regions.
Generate resourceLocate on a map pre-war centers of Jewish life, including shtetls, in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.*
Generate resourceOutline the historical events that allowed for the breakdown of democracy in Germany from 1929 to 1939.*
Generate resourceAnalyze the Treaty of Versailles as a causal factor for the rise of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party), and explain how the Nazis appropriated and manipulated antisemitism to their party’s advantage.*
Generate resourceDescribe the Weimar Republic and the fragility of its democracy, and explain why Adolf Hitler was able to come to power.*
Generate resourceExplain how the Nazi Party grew into a mass movement that gained and maintained power in Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler.*
Generate resourceDescribe how the Nazis utilized various forms of propaganda, including education and youth programs, to indoctrinate the German population and exploit antisemitic attitudes among the German people to create an atmosphere of terror.*
Generate resourceEvaluate the Nazis’ propaganda efforts regarding the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and describe how the performance of Jesse Owens contradicted the Nazis’ position.
Generate resourceAnalyze how the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Gestapo broke resistance and instilled fear within Germany and in Nazi-occupied territories.*
Generate resourceExplain how Nazis’ racial beliefs were representative of their overall worldview.*
Generate resourceAnalyze the Nazis’ pursuit of racial purity, including sterilization and other eugenics practices.
Generate resourceAssess how the Nazis’ antisemitism and racial beliefs influenced their foreign policy.*
Generate resourceDescribe how Jewish life deteriorated under the Third Reich in Germany and its annexed territories from 1933 to 1938.*
Generate resourceExplain the motivations behind the boycott of Jewish businesses and Nazi book burnings.
Generate resourceAssess the main purposes of the Nazi antisemitic laws and policies and explain how they evolved over time.*
Generate resourceAssess how German Jews reacted to increasing exclusion and isolation in German society between 1933 and 1939 and describe the strategies they employed both to leave Germany and to enlist help from non-Jews in Germany.
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes and effects of the November pogrom (Kristallnacht) and how it transitioned the Nazis’ antisemitic activities from targeted persecution and antisemitic policy to open, public violence against Jews in Germany and Nazi-controlled territories.*
Generate resourceAssess how the destruction of Jewish cultural and religious institutions affected German Jews.
Generate resourceCritique American and world responses to the November pogrom (Kristallnacht) and the persecution of Jews in Germany and Nazi-controlled territories.
Generate resourceDescribe how Jewish immigration was perceived and restricted by various nations from 1933 to 1939.*
Generate resourceDescribe the difficulties European Jewish refugees faced when attempting to emigrate to the United States, Canada, and Latin America during the 1930s and 1940s.*
Generate resourceEvaluate the extent to which Americans were aware of Nazi antisemitic and racial policies and the Holocaust through the information and news available to them during the 1930s and 1940s.
Generate resourceDescribe how Alabamians responded to Nazi persecution of the Jews in Europe.*
Generate resourceHuman Geography
Differentiate among types of charts, graphs, infographics, and maps, and explain how different types of these illustrate data and trends.
Generate resourceEvaluate the impact of long-term climate shifts and resource usage on human migration and settlement patterns.
Generate resourceAnalyze how the economic and cultural activities of urban places shape surrounding regions.
Generate resourceExplain how urban sprawl affects a city, the communities around it, and the natural environment.
Generate resourceExplain how interaction between people and the environment affects culture in today's society.
Generate resourceExplain how resource availability and cultural practices influence agricultural methods, crop selection, and land-use patterns.
Generate resourceDescribe how cultural diffusion and changes in technology have advanced agricultural methods over time.
Generate resourceExplain how economic interdependence and globalization impact countries and their populations.
Generate resourceTrace the flow of commodities among regions of the world, explaining why patterns develop and identifying factors that might interrupt the transfer of goods.
Generate resourceExplain the advantages and disadvantages of global trade agreements for both people and countries.
Generate resourceExplain what constitutes a region and analyze relationships between regions.
Generate resourceResearch spatial patterns of world populations to discern population distribution and explain reasons for these patterns.
Generate resourceIdentify the characteristics, diffusion, distribution, and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe essential aspects of culture, including architecture, art, belief systems, customs, food, languages, religion, technology, and traditions.
Generate resourceDifferentiate between material and nonmaterial culture within a society, including folk customs.
Generate resourceExplain how music, dance, fashion, and art provide avenues for understanding the cultures from which they originate, both past and present.
Generate resourceExplain how the cultural landscape of a region reflects cultural traits, economic status, and preferences of its inhabitants.
Generate resourceDistinguish among various types of architecture based on their function, and explain how these may differ between rural and urban locations.
Generate resourceIdentify the world's most widely spoken languages and trace their origins and development.
Generate resourceDevelop an argument supporting the position that linguistic diversity creates both cultural richness and conflict.
Generate resourceDescribe ways religion influences cultures, citing examples from around the globe.
Generate resourceIdentify major religions, their places of origin, and areas of expansion.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast ceremonies based on religious traditions in a variety of cultures, including marriages, funerals, and coming-of-age rituals.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the roles of men and women in societies around the world, including matrilineal and patrilineal societies.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain world migration patterns caused by forced displacement throughout history.
Generate resourceExplain the causes and effects of the migration of various ethnic groups to the United States.
Generate resourceExplain the causes and consequences of migration within the United States, citing historical examples.
Generate resourcePsychology
Trace the development of psychology as a scientific discipline, including its evolution from other fields of study.*
Generate resourceExplain the importance and processes of memory, including how information is encoded and stored, the use of mnemonic devices, and how schemas influence memory construction and retrieval.
Generate resourceCompare ways memories are stored in the brain, including episodic and procedural, and explain how information is retrieved, reconstructed, or misremembered.
Generate resourceDescribe ways in which organisms learn, including the processes of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning.*
Generate resourceIdentify and describe unconditioned stimuli, conditioned stimuli, unconditioned responses, and conditioned responses.
Generate resourceExplain the law of effect, and differentiate between reinforcement and punishment, positive and negative reinforcement, and various schedules of reinforcement.
Generate resourceDescribe original experiments conducted by Albert Bandura, B. F. Skinner, Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, Kenneth and Mamie Clark, and Rosalie Rayner.
Generate resourceExplain processes involved in problem-solving and decision-making, including cognitive processes related to thinking and concept formation.
Generate resourceExplain the role of mental images and verbal symbols in the thought process.
Generate resourceDescribe methods of assessing individual differences and theories of intelligence, including Charles E. Spearman's general (g) factor of intelligence, Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences, and Robert J. Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence.
Generate resourceDescribe different types of intelligence tests and explain the Flynn effect.
Generate resourceSummarize concerns regarding the reliability and validity of intelligence test scores and describe the historical use and misuse of intelligence tests.
Generate resourceExplain the role of personality development in human behavior and differentiate among theories that seek to explain this development.
Generate resourceDescribe different measures of personality, including the Neuroticism-Extroversion-Openness Personality Inventory (NEO-PI), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and projective tests.
Generate resourceDescribe theories that explain how biological, cognitive, and social factors influence motivation, including Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, arousal theory, and the theory drive for hunger (homeostasis).
Generate resourceDescribe situational cues that cause emotions, including anger, curiosity, and anxiety.
Generate resourceDescribe major psychological disorders and their treatments and explain how examples of abnormal behavior differ from normal behavior.*
Generate resourceDescribe various approaches for explaining mental illness, including biological and medical, cognitive, and sociocultural models.
Generate resourceDifferentiate among types of mental illness, including mood, anxiety, somatoform, schizophrenic, dissociative, and personality disorders.
Generate resourceDescribe how attitudes, conditions of obedience and conformity, and other influences affect actions and shape human behavior, including actor-observer, self-server, social facilitation, social loafing, bystander effect, groupthink, and group polarization.
Generate resourceCritique the ethical issues found in Stanley Milgram's work with obedience and S. E. Asch's work with conformity.
Generate resourceIdentify sources of stress across the human lifespan and explain the physiological and psychological consequences of stress for health and wellness.*
Generate resourceExplain physiological, cognitive, and behavioral strategies to deal with stress, and contrast positive and negative ways of coping with stress.
Generate resourceDescribe different types of biomedical and psychological treatments for mental disorders.
Generate resourceExplain how mental health professionals determine the appropriate treatment from the variety of psychological treatments available for various mental health issues and disorders.*
Generate resourceIdentify differences among licensed mental health providers and outline legal and ethical requirements for mental health providers.
Generate resourceExplain the significance of Wyatt v. Stickney (1972) and explain how the Wyatt Standards improved mental health codes and federal regulations regarding the treatment of mental disorders.
Generate resourceInvestigate and describe the history of psychology from its beginning to the modern era, including key contributors to the field.*
Generate resourceDifferentiate among various schools of thought and perspectives that have developed in psychology since 1879.*
Generate resourceDescribe how modern psychologists utilize multiple perspectives to understand behavior and mental processes, citing examples.*
Generate resourceDescribe methodologies, research tools, and strategies used by researchers in psychological studies.*
Generate resourceContrast the roles of independent, dependent, and confounding variables and the functions of control and experimental groups within the scientific method.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain systematic procedures necessary for conducting an experiment and improving the validity of results.*
Generate resourceDescribe the role of the American Psychological Association in setting ethical guidelines regarding the use of human and animal subjects in psychological research.*
Generate resourceDescribe various careers pursued by psychologists, including medical and mental health care fields, the business world, education, law and criminal justice, and research.*
Generate resourceCompare the effects of heredity and environment on development and behavior.*
Generate resourceDescribe the structure, biochemistry, and circuitry of the brain and nervous system, and explain their roles in human behavior and mental processes.*
Generate resourceDescribe communication between neurons and the electrochemical process, including the role of neurotransmitters in behavior.*
Generate resourceExplain the effect of neurotransmitters on human behavior and compare the effects of drugs and toxins on the brain.
Generate resourceDescribe the specialized and interdependent functions of sections of the brain, including the lobes and hemispheres of the cerebral cortex.
Generate resourceExplain how psychoactive drugs affect people, including the mechanisms of addiction, tolerance, and withdrawal.
Generate resourceExplain how behavior genetics has contributed to the understanding of behavior and mental processes, including differentiating among deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), chromosomes, and genes and identifying effects of chromosomal abnormalities.
Generate resourceExplain how perceiving can differ from sensing, including how attention and environmental cues can impact what is perceived and what is sensed.
Generate resourceDescribe cognitive, physical, and social development across the human lifespan, citing theories of Carol Gilligan, Erik H. Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lawrence Kohlberg.
Generate resourcePsychology Grade 9-12
Describing early psychological and biological inquiries that led to contemporary approaches and methods of experimentation, including ideologies of Aristotle, John Locke, Wilhelm Wundt, Charles Darwin, William James, Frantz Fanon, and G. Stanley Hall
Generate resourceDifferentiating among various modern schools of thought and perspectives in psychology that have evolved since 1879, including each school's view on concepts of aggression or appetite
Generate resourceIllustrating how modern psychologists utilize multiple perspectives to understand behavior and mental processes
Generate resource• Describing how understanding syntax and grammar affect language comprehension
Generate resource• Demonstrating how qualities of sign language are similar to spoken language
Generate resource• Explaining how hearing loss in infants and children can affect the development of spoken language
Generate resourceExplaining states of sleep throughout an average night's sleep, including nonrapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM)
Generate resource• Analyzing the use of psychoactive drugs for effects on people, including the mechanisms of addiction, withdrawal, and tolerance •
Generate resource• Identifying theories that explain motivational processes, including cognitive, biological, and psychological reasons for motivational behavior, and Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs and arousal theory
Generate resource• Describing situational cues that cause emotions, including anger, curiosity, and anxiety
Generate resource• Describing different types of intelligence tests, including the Flynn effect
Generate resource• Describing how intelligence may be influenced by differences in heredity and environment and by biases toward ethnic minority and socioeconomic groups
Generate resource• Differentiating among personality theories, including psychoanalytic, sociocognitive, trait, and humanistic theories of personality •
Generate resourceDescribing different measures of personality, including the Neuroticism-Extroversion-Openness Personality Inventory (NEO-PI), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and projective tests
Generate resource• Describing different approaches for explaining mental illness, including biological and medical, cognitive, and sociocultural models
Generate resource• Differentiating types of mental illness, including mood, anxiety, somatoform, schizophrenic, dissociative, and personality disorders
Generate resource• Critiquing Stanley Milgram's work with obedience and S. E. Asch's work with conformity
Generate resourceDescribing the type of methodology and strategies used by researchers in different psychological studies Examples: surveys, naturalistic observations, case studies, longitudinal studies, cross-sectional studies • cx
Generate resourceContrasting independent, dependent, and confounding variables and control and experimental groups
Generate resourceIdentifying systematic procedures necessary for conducting an experiment and improving the validity of results
Generate resourceDescribing the use of statistics in evaluating research, including calculating the mean, median, and mode from a set of data; conducting a simple correlational analysis using either calculators or computer software; and explaining the meaning of statistical significance
Generate resourceDescribing how neurons communicate, including the role of neurotransmitters in behavior and the electrochemical process •
Generate resourceDescribing how different sections of the brain have specialized yet interdependent functions, including functions of different lobes and hemispheres of the cerebral cortex and consequences of damage to specific sections of the brain •
Generate resourceAnalyzing behavior genetics for its contribution to the understanding of behavior and mental processes, including differentiating between deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), chromosomes, and genes; identifying effects of chromosomal abnormalities; and explaining how genetics and environmental factors work together to determine inherited traits
Generate resourceExplaining the role of sensory systems in human behavior, including sight, sound, smell, touch, and pain
Generate resourceExplaining how what is perceived can be different from what is sensed, including how attention and environmental cues can affect the ability to accurately sense and perceive the world
Generate resourceDescribing physiological processes associated with stress, including hormones associated with stress responses
Generate resourceDescribing the flight-or-fight response in terms of the autonomic and somatic nervous systems
Generate resourceContrasting positive and negative ways of coping with stress related to problem-focused coping, aggression, and emotion-focused coping
Generate resourceExplaining approach-approach, approach-avoidance, and avoidance-avoidance conflicts • Identifying various eating disorders and conditions Examples: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, obesity
Generate resourceOutlining the stage-of-development theories of Jean Piaget, Erik H. Erikson, Sigmund Freud, Carol Gilligan, and Lawrence Kohlberg
Generate resource• Comparing ways memories are stored in the brain, including episodic and procedural
Generate resource• Identifying unconditioned stimuli (UCS), conditioned stimuli (CS), unconditioned responses (UCR), and conditioned responses (CR)
Generate resource• Describing original experiments conducted by B. F. Skinner, Albert Bandura, Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and Rosalie Rayner
Generate resource• Differentiating between reinforcement and punishment, positive and negative reinforcement, and various schedules of reinforcement
Generate resource• Identifying the role of mental images and verbal symbols in the thought process
Generate resource• Analyzing different types of heuristics to determine effects on problem solving
Generate resourceTrace the development of psychology as a scientific discipline evolving from other fields of study. • • Identifying major subfields and career opportunities related to psychology
Generate resourceCompare various states of consciousness evident in human behavior, including the process of sleeping and dreaming. •
Generate resourceDescribe methods of assessing individual differences and theories of intelligence, including Charles E. Spearman's general (g) factor of intelligence, Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences, and Robert J. Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence.
Generate resourceDescribe how attitudes, conditions of obedience and conformity, and other influences affect actions and shape human behavior, including actor-observer, self-server, social facilitation, social loafing, bystander effect, groupthink, and group polarization.
Generate resourceDescribe various careers pursued by psychologists, including medical and mental health care fields, the business world, education, law and criminal justice, and research.
Generate resourceExplain how processes of the central and peripheral nervous systems underlie behavior and mental processes, including how neurons are the basis for neural communication.
Generate resourceDescribe the physical, cognitive, and social development across the life span of a person from the prenatal through aging stages.
Generate resourceDescribe the processes and importance of memory, including how information is encoded and stored, mnemonic devices, schemas related to short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory.
Generate resourceDescribe ways in which organisms learn, including the processes of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational conditioning.
Generate resourceDescribe how organisms think and solve problems, including processes involved in accurate thinking.
Generate resourceSociology
Explain the relationship between social stratification and social class, including status ascription versus achievement, intergenerational social mobility, and structural occupational change.*
Generate resourceExplain why social movements form, and identify the factors that produce large-scale social change as a result of these movements.*
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the major theories of collective behavior, including contagion theory, convergence theory, and emergent norm theory.*
Generate resourceDescribe how social movements, including the Civil Rights Movement, have created change throughout the history of the United States.
Generate resourceExplain the role of social institutions in fostering change and reinforcing stratification.*
Generate resourceExplain the contributions of important figures in the field of sociology, including Émile Durkheim, George Herbert Mead, Karl Marx, Max Weber, and W.E.B. Du Bois.*
Generate resourceIdentify and explain tenets of sociology, including functional integration, power, social action, social structure, and culture.
Generate resourceDifferentiate between qualitative and quantitative research methods, giving examples of each.*
Generate resourceExplain the usefulness of discerning and sharing insights into human behavior of individuals and groups.*
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the three major sociological theories: functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interaction.*
Generate resourceApply the major sociological theories to a situation and evaluate the differences in interpretations.
Generate resourceDescribe ways in which cultures differ, change, and resist change, including countercultures, subcultures, and ethnocentric beliefs.
Generate resourceIllustrate and explain key concepts and goals of socialization, including self-concept, looking-glass self, significant others, and role-taking.
Generate resourceDescribe the major agents of socialization and evaluate the role that each one plays.*
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the phases of development in the human life cycle, including birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, middle age, and late adulthood.*
Generate resourceDifferentiate among primary, secondary, and adult socialization and identify the key influences of socialization for each stage.
Generate resourceInvestigate and explain the impact of psychological theories that influence sociology, including Erikson’s Psychosocial Development, Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development, Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development, and Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory.
Generate resourceAnalyze deviance from each of the three sociological perspectives (interactionist, functional, and conflict).
Generate resourceTrace how society has reacted to deviant behaviors throughout history and explain the theoretical principles of punishment, including retributive, rehabilitative, and deterrent.*
Generate resourceAnalyze how different types of social groups can influence individual and group behavior.*
Generate resourceCompare and contrast types of groups and the reasons for group formation.*
Generate resourceTrace the development of various types of social groups from hunter-gatherer societies to the present day and explain how the importance of primary and secondary groups has changed over time.
Generate resourceExplain the purpose of social systems and institutions, including governments, houses of worship, schools, and voluntary associations.
Generate resourceCompare how authority is perceived in legitimate power and coercive power leadership styles.*
Generate resourceDifferentiate among Weber’s three types of authority (charismatic, rational-legal, and traditional) in respect to source of power and leadership style.*
Generate resourceDescribe the structure and function of family units, including traditional, extended, nuclear, single-parent, and blended families, and describe the roles of parent, child, and spouse within each type.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast biological family with found or chosen family and develop an argument regarding why a person may select one over the other.
Generate resourceU.S. Government
Explain historical and philosophical origins that shaped the government of the United States, including the Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights, the English Bill of Rights, the Mayflower Compact, the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and the influence of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean-Jaques Rousseau, and the Great Awakening.
Generate resourceComparing characteristics of limited and unlimited governments throughout the world, including constitutional, authoritarian, and totalitarian governments. Examples: constitutional—United States; authoritarian—Iran; totalitarian—North Korea
Generate resourceEvaluate roles political parties play in the functioning of the political system of the United States.
Generate resourceDescribing the role of third-party candidates in political elections in the United States
Generate resourceExplaining major characteristics of contemporary political parties in the United States, including the role of conventions, party leadership, formal and informal memberships, and regional strongholds
Generate resourceDescribing the influence of political parties on individuals and elected officials, including the development of party machines, rise of independent voters, and disillusionment with party systems
Generate resourceEvaluate constitutional provisions of the legislative branch of the government of the United States, including checks by the legislative branch on other branches of government.
Generate resourceComparing rules of operations and hierarchies of Congress, including roles of the Speaker of the House, the Senate President Pro Tempore, majority and minority leaders, and party whips
Generate resourceIdentifying the significance of Congressional committee structure and types of committees
Generate resourceTracing the legislative process, including types of votes and committee action, from a bill’s presentation to presidential action
Generate resourceEvaluate constitutional provisions of the executive branch of the government of the United States, including checks by the executive branch on other branches of government and powers, duties as head of state and head of government, the electoral process, and the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
Generate resourceCritiquing informal powers of the President of the United States, including press conferences, State of the Union addresses, total media access, head of party, and symbolic powers of the Oval Office
Generate resourceIdentifying the influence of White House staff on the President of the United States
Generate resourceRanking powers held by the President’s Cabinet, including roles of Cabinet secretaries, appropriations by Congress, appointment and confirmation, and operation of organization
Generate resourceComparing diverse backgrounds, socioeconomic status, and levels of education of United States’ presidents
Generate resourceEvaluate constitutional provisions of the judicial branch of government of the United States, including checks by the judicial branch on other branches of government, limits on judicial power, and the process by which cases are argued before the United States Supreme Court
Generate resourceExplaining the structure and jurisdiction of court systems of the United States, including lower courts and appellate courts
Generate resourceIdentifying the impact of landmark United States Supreme Court cases on constitutional interpretation Examples: Marbury versus Madison, Miranda versus Arizona, Tinker versus Des Moines, Gideon versus Wainwright, Reno versus American Civil Liberties Union, United States versus Nixon, McCulloch versus Maryland, Wallace versus Jaffree, Wyatt versus Stickney, Powell versus Alabama
Generate resourceDescribing the shifting political balance of the court system, including the appointment process, the ideology of justices, influences on court decisions regarding executive and legislative opinion, public opinion, and the desire for impartiality
Generate resourceContrasting strict and loose constructionist views of the Constitution of the United States
Generate resourceDescribe the role of citizens in American democracy, including the meaning, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship; due process and other rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States; and participation in the election process.
Generate resourceExplaining how the balance between individual versus majority rule and state versus national authority is essential to the functioning of the American democratic society. Examples: majority rule and minority rights, liberty and equality, state and national authority in a federal system, civil disobedience and rule of law, freedom of the press, right to a fair trial, relationship of religion and government
Generate resourceExplain the role and consequences of domestic and foreign policy decisions, including scientific and technological advancements and humanitarian, cultural, economic, and political changes. Examples: isolationism versus internationalism, policy of containment, policy of détente, multilateralism, war on terrorism
Generate resourceSummarize the significance of the First and Second Continental Congresses, the Declaration of Independence, Shays’ Rebellion, and the Articles of Confederation of 1781 on the writing and ratification of the Constitution of the United States of 1787 and the Bill of Rights of 1791.
Generate resourceAnalyze major features of the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights for purposes, organization, functions, and principles, including rule of law, federalism, limited government, popular sovereignty, judicial review, separation of powers, and checks and balances.
Generate resourceExplaining main ideas of the debate over ratification that included the Federalist papers
Generate resourceAnalyzing the Bill of Rights for its application to historical and current issues
Generate resourceOutlining the formal process of amending the Constitution of the United States
Generate resourceExplain how the federal system of the United States divides powers between national and state governments.
Generate resourceSummarizing obligations that the Constitution of the United States places on a nation for the benefit of the states, including admitting new states and cooperative federalism
Generate resourceCompare specific functions, organizations, and purposes of local and state governments, including implementing fiscal and monetary policies, ensuring personal security, and regulating transportation.
Generate resourceAnalyzing the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 to determine its impact on local funding and campaign funding
Generate resourceAnalyze the expansion of suffrage for its effect on the political system of the United States, including suffrage for non-property owners, women, African Americans, and persons eighteen years of age.
Generate resourceDescribing implications of participation of large numbers of minorities and women in parties and campaigns
Generate resourceAnalyzing the black codes, the Jim Crow laws, and the Selma-toMontgomery March for their impact on the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Generate resourceDescribe the process of local, state, and national elections, including the organization, role, and constituency of political parties.
Generate resourceEvaluating the impact of reapportionment, redistricting, and voter turnout on elections
Generate resourceDescribe functions and the development of special interest groups and campaign contributions by political action committees and their impact on state and national elections.
Generate resourceAnalyzing rulings by the United States Supreme Court, including Buckley versus Valeo, regarding campaign financing to determine the effect on the election process
Generate resourceTrace the impact of the media on the political process and public opinion in the United States, including party press, penny press, print media, yellow journalism, radio, television, and electronic media.
Generate resourceAnalyzing television and electronic media for their impact on the election process and campaign spending from the John F. Kennedy-Richard M. Nixon debate to the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States
Generate resourceExplaining the effect of attack advertisements on voter selection of candidates
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